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A-Z entries detail the lives, works, and critical reception of more than 70 American writers of the 19th century.

Table of Contents

CONTENTSCONTENTSCONTENTS Preface xiAmos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) Gregory Eiselein 1Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) Catherine J. Golden 7William Apess (1798–1839) Theresa Strouth Gaul 15Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854) Phillip Howerton 19William Wells Brown (1814?–1884) Tim Prchal 24William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) John J. Han 30Alice Cary (1820–1871) Rebecca R. Saulsbury 38Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) MaryBeth Short Page 43William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) John J. Han 46Caroline Chesebro' (1825–1873) Lucy M. Freibert 51Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) Valerie D. Levy 56James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) Annette Jael Lehmann 64Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) Todd Richardson 72Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866) Theresa J. Flowers 77Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) Terry Novak 81Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885) Edward Whitley 87Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Annette Jael Lehmann 91Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) William J. Scheick 101Emma Catherine Embury (1806–1863) Amy L. Burtner 109Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) Sharon L. Gravett 113Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton] (1811–1872) Terry Novak 124Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) Anne Baker 130William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) Lynn Domina 138Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888) Dorothy J. Rumenik 142Grace Greenwood [Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott] (1823–1904) Fredrica Bearg Glucksman 147Angelina Grimké (1805–1879) Robert A. Russ 151Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837–1914) Theodore R. Hovet 156Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) Robert A. Russ 161Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879) Aleta Cane 165Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) Hildegard Hoeller 170George Washington Harris (1814–1869) Samuel I. Bellman 176Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) Monika Elbert 180Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800–1856) Theresa J. Flowers 193Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Denise D. Knight 197Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848) Cecile Anne de Rocher 203Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) Lori N. Howard 206Washington Irving (1783–1859) Joseph Rosenblum 210Harriet Ann Jacobs (c. 1813–1897) Terry Novak 218Sylvester Judd (1813–1853) John J. Han 223Caroline M. Kirkland (1801–1864) Jana A. Bouma 227Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) William Etter 235George Lippard (1822–1854) Paul J. Erickson 240Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) Patrick M. Erben 244Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870) Joan Wylie Hall 251James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) William Pannapacker 256Maria Jane McIntosh (1803–1878) Rebecca R. Saulsbury 263Herman Melville (1819–1891) Steven Olsen-Smith 267Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893) Veronica Margrave 277Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811–1850) Mary G. De Jong 282Theodore Parker (1810–1860) John J. Han 287Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815–1852) Ann Beebe 292Edgar Allen Poe (1809–1849) Catherine Rainwater 300James Redpath (1833–1891) John P. Koontz 308John Rollin Ridge (1827–1867) William Etter 312Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) Maria Karafilis 316Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) Grace Ann Hovet 324William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) Ted Olson 329Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Arthur K. Steinberg 335Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879) Mark G. Vásquez 340Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Denise D. Knight 345Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) Andrew Rennick 353Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) Stephen Hahn 357Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815–1878) John J. Han 367Henry Timrod (1828–1867) Geoff Bender 372Sojourner Truth (c. 1797?–1883) Lori N. Howard 376Jones Very (1813–1880) Aleta Cane 380Susan Warner (1819–1885) Jana L. Argersinger 384Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1812?–1852) Anne Razey Gowdy 392James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871) Edward Whitley 396Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) Noelle A. Baker 400Walt Whitman (1819–1892) Steven Olsen-Smith 404John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) Patrick M. Erben 415Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) Mark G. Vásquez 422Harriet E. Wilson (1827?–1863?) Tammy Cole 427Select Bibliography 433Index 437About the Contributors 453

About the Author

DENISE D. KNIGHT is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English at the State University of New York, Cortland. She is the author of several books, including Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide (Greenwood, 2003), Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997), and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1997), and coauthor of Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1993).

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