Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain

359 Pages·2012·2.525 MB·English

by  Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, Lucinda L. Damon-Bach

Transa t l ant ic Women

Becoming Moder n:
New Ninet eent h-Centu ry Studies
Series Editors
Sarah Way Sherman Rohan McWilliam
Department of English Anglia Ruskin University
University of New Hampshire Cambridge, England
Janet Aikins Yount Janet Polasky
Department of English Department of History
University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire
This book series maps the complexity of historical change and assesses the
formation of ideas, movements, and institutions crucial to our own time by
publishing books that examine the emergence of modernity in North America
and Europe. Set primarily but not exclusively in the nineteenth centur y, the
series shifts attention from modernity’s twentieth-century forms to its earlier
moments of uncertain and often disputed construction. Seeking books of inter-
est to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it thereby encourages the expansion
of nineteenth-century studies and the exploration of more global patterns of
development.
For a complete list of books available in this series, see www.upne.com
Hildegard Hoeller, From Gift to Commodity: Capitalism and Sacrifice in Nineteenth-
Century American Fiction
Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, editors, Transatlantic
Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain
Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public
Sphere
Nancy Siegel, editor, The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape
Painting
Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan, editors, Cultures of Femininity in Modern
Fashion
Brian Joseph Martin, Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexual-
ity in Nineteenth-Century France
Andrew Taylor, Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of
American Identity
Elizabeth A. Fay, Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism
Katherine Joslin, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion
Railway map of England and Scotland, 1860.
From the American Geographical Society Library,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
Ninet eent h-Centu r y
American Women Writ ers
and Great Br it ain
Transatlantic
W omen
Edit ed by Bet h L. Luec k,
Brigit t e Bail ey, and
Lucind a L. Damon-Bach
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Transatlantic women: nineteenth-century American women
writers and Great Britain / edited by Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte
Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach.
p. cm.—(Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century
studies)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-61168-275-5 (locth : alk. paper)—
ISBN 978-1-61168-276-2
(pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-61168-277-9 (ebook)
1. American literature—Women authors—History and criticism.
2. Women authors, American—Friends and associates.
3. Women and literature—English-speaking countries—
History—19th century. I. Lueck,
Beth Lynne. II. Bailey, Brigitte. III. Damon-Bach, Lucinda L.
PS147.T75 2012
810.9'9287—dc2 3 2012007517
5 4 3 2 1
For Benjamin, Daniel, Wei,
and Celeste, the next
gener ation of t ravel ers

Cont ent s
Acknowledgments xi
Int roduct ion Transatlantic Studies and American Women Writers
Brigit te Bail ey xiii
Part o ne Tourism, Celebrity, and Reform: Nineteenth-Century American
Women Writers and Transatlantic Travel
Chapter o ne A Flight from Home: Negotiations of Gender and
Nationality in Frances Osgood’s Early Career Sarah Klotz 3
Chapter t wo Catharine Maria Sedgwick Tours England: Private
Letters, Public Account Lucinda L. Damon-Bach 21
Chapter t hr ee Margaret Fuller’s New-York Tribune Dispatches
from Great Britain: Modern Geography and the Print Culture of Reform
Brigit te Bail ey 49
Chapter f our Harriet Beecher Stowe, Starring as Benevolent
Celebrity Traveler Sarah Ruffing Robbins 71
Chapter f ive “A little private conversation . . . in her boudoir”:
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Appearance at Stafford House in 1853 :
An Essay in Twelve Parts Beth L. Lueck 89
Chapter six Reluctant Celebrity: Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Fanny Fern, and the Transatlantic Embodiment of Gender
and Fame Brenda R. Weber 104
Chapter se ven Freedom and Grace: Harriet Jacobs in England
Grace McEntee 120
Chapter ei ght Great Exhibitions: Ellen Craft on the British
Abolitionist Stage Kenneth Salz er 136