Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-305) and index
Again and again, the scribbling women / Nina Baym -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody : a tireless Hawthorne booster / John L. Idol Jr. -- Chief employ of her life : Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's contribution to her husband's career / Luanne Jenkins Hurst -- Memories of Hawthorne : Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's auto-biography / Patricia Dunlavy Valenti -- Margaret Fuller on Hawthorne : formative views by a woman of the nineteenth century / David B. Kesterson -- Rappaccini's garden and Emerson's Concord : translating the voice of Margaret Fuller / Thomas R. Mitchell -- Stowe and Hawthorne / James D. Wallace -- Discord in Concord : national politics and literary neighbors / Claudia Durst Johnson -- Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard's "immortal feather" / Margaret B. Moore -- Annie Field's Nathaniel Hawthorne / Rita K. Gollin -- Mary Russell Mitford : Hawthorne as the best living writer of prose fiction / John L. Idol Jr. -- Virgin saint, mother saint : Hilda and Dorothea / Patricia Marks --
- "Partly sympathy and partly rebellion" : Mary Ward, The scarlet letter, and Hawthorne / Carol M. Bensick -- Hawthorne's legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis / Janice Milner Lasseter -- Hawthorne, Jewett, and the meditative sublime / Gayle L. Smith -- Unfortunate fall : women and genteel poverty in the fiction of Hawthorne and Freeman / Melissa McFarland Pennell -- Katharine Lee Bates : Hawthorne student, teacher, critic, and respondent / Melinda M. Ponder -- Cather and Hawthorne : kindred spirits / John J. Murphy -- "Demons of wickedness, angels of delight" : Hawthorne, Woolf, and the child / Elizabeth N. Goodenough -- Emily Dickinson's pearls / Karen Kilcup -- "Such a hopeless task before her" : some observations on the fiction of Hawthorne and Gilman / Denise D. Knight -- Bourgeois sexuality and the Gothic plot in Wharton and Hawthorne / Monika M. Elbert -- Scarlet letter as pre-text for Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people" / John Gatta --
- "Ghosts might enter here" : toward a reader's history / Franny Nudelman
