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 1843Literary 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