Introduction, Women Writers and the Assumption of Authority: The Atlantic Monthly , 1857-1898Conversation as Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century Thumping Against the Glittering Wall of Limitations: Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York We Must Be about Our Father’s Business: Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-CenturyAfrican-American Woman Intellectual,I Thought From the Way You Writ, That You Were a Great Six-Footer of a Woman: Gender and the Public Voice in Fanny Fern’s Newspaper Essays ,Excising the Text, Exorcising the Author: Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Literary Cross-Dressing in Old New York: Ann Sophia Stephens as Jonathan Slick, Gender and the Jeremiad: Gail Hamilton’s Antisuffrage Prophecy, The American Indian Story of Zitkala-Sa, Contributors' Notes