Legacy 41:1

Legacy 41:1

Edited by Jennifer Putzi, Katherine Adams, Susan Tomlinson, and Kim D. Hester Williams

Table Of Contents

Volume 41, no. 1 (2024)
Contents

Essays
Ill Communication: Women, Writing, and Health in Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall
Heather Chacón 

“New and Crazy Social Schemes”: The Nineteenth-Century Free Love Movement in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
Jennifer Haytock 

Crafting Chinese American Girlhood: Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far in The Modern Priscilla
Valentina Montero Román 

Chloroformed: Anesthetic Utopianism and Eugenic Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Other Works
Claire Marie Class 

Legacy Reprint
“A Draught of Bewilderment: A Tale of Modern China,” by Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far
June Howard

Book Reviews
Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures, by Caroline Wigginton
Anne Mai Yee Jansen 

Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852–1869, by Kristin Allukian
Ingrid Diran

Little Women at 150, edited by Daniel Shealy
Sarah Wadsworth 

(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship, by Stephanie Peebles Tavera
Amanda Stuckey

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, by Miriam Thaggert
Barbara McCaskill 

After a Thousand Tears: Poems, by Georgia Douglas Johnson, edited by Jimmy Worthy II
Michelle J. Pinkard 

Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston beyond the Literary Icon, by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall
Claudine Raynaud 

In the Company of Radical Women Writers, by Rosemary Hennessy
Julia Lisella 

This House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker, by Maryemma Graham
Nathaniel Mills