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Current Issue:

The Real Housewives of New England: Poverty and Epistemology in Lydia Maria Child’s The American Frugal Housewife

Tara Robbins Fee

Rewriting Rebellion: The Douglass-Truth Debate

Tim Bruno

The “Brilliant Careers” of “Terrible Creatures” in Henry James’ The Bostonians and Lillie Devereux Blake’s Fettered for Life

Kristin Allukian

The Year in Conferences 2018 (C19, ALA, and SSAWW)