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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 14d

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 14d

- Koritha Mitchell's "Frances E. W. Harper, A Model Citizen Who Couldn’t Vote": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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- Kate Adams' "Frances E. W. Harper and the 'Quest for a Usable Past'": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... !

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Project MUSE - Frances E. W. Harper, A Model Citizen Who Couldn’t Vote

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 14d

- Denise Burgher's "Recovering Black Women in the Colored Conventions Movement": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- Hannah Wakefield's "'Let the Light Enter!': Illuminating the Newspaper Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/3

Project MUSE - Recovering Black Women in the Colored Conventions Movement

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 14d

Born on this day in 1825... the great Frances Ellen Watkins Harper!

You can of course still read our 2024 issue dedicated to Harper, introduced by Eric Gardner: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic.... Available in open access!

But don't forget previous and equally excellent contributions on Harper:

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you Eagan for your review ✨ (It convinced me to give it a read!) And it's a truly key topic for gender studies!

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 22d

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 26d

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · Sep 5

#c19 question: this daguerreotype pops up in a few places on social media, and now wikipedia, identified as Harriet E. Wilson. But is there any scholarly provenance documenting that it is / probably is her?

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 3

- "Not Feeling Right: Queer Encounters with American Women's Writing" by Sari Edelstein: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Send us a message for access 🙂

Pictured: bronze of Jewett kept at the Boston Atheneum (not exhibited, unfortunately! bostonathenaeum.org/library-coll...)

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 3

-"Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner" and the Transamerican Routes of New England Regionalism" P.Gleason: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
-"Withdrawing from the Nation: Regionalist Literature as Ascetic Practice in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs" C. Dowdell: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another birthday to celebrate today: Sarah Orne Jewett's! (Born in 1849!) 🌲🌲🌲

Here's a slew of great essays on one of Maine's most precious treasures :
- "Eunice and the Jade Gods: Jewett's Religious Rhetoric in A Country Doctor" by Terry Heller: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 1

Pictured: Sigourney photographed by Mathew Benjamin Brady - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.... CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 5220 C [P&P] 3/3

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 1

We will try to keep a sharp eye on the birthdays of all American women writers this year, so do not hesitate to remind us when you favorite should be celebrated! 2/3

Project MUSE - Lydia Sigourney’s Sailors and the Limits of Sentiment

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do you want to celebrate Lydia Sigourney, born on this day in 1791? 🎈We suggest this great essay by Bryan Sinche, « Lydia Sigourney’s Lydia Sigourney’s Sailors and the Limits of Sentiment »: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... (if you do not have access to the article, send us a quick message!) 1/3

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Aug 29

We hope this will satisfy all your most urgent reading needs, and we wish you all inspiration, strength and luck for this fall! 3/3

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Aug 29

- "Indigenous Motherhood and Child Separation in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona" by Tereza M. Szeghi
- "Legal and Domestic Geographies in Susan Glaspell's Trifles" by Deena Varner
- Two new profiles by Jean Lee Cole and Meg Gillette
- And many fascinating book reviews... 📚 2/3

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Aug 29

New issue of Legacy is out, and open access! 🗞️
Click right here to access Volume 42, No 1:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55448 !
On the menu:

- "Leaving Giants Unslain: Idle Activism in Catharine Sedgwick's The Linwoods and Other Writings" by Jordan L. Von Cannon

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here is the link to the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025-2026 SSAWW Mentorship Match Interest Form

Please complete and submit this form by Friday, August 16 if you’d like to be considered for the 2025-2026 Mentorship Match Program.

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ten days left to apply to this great mentorship program!

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 8

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social · Jul 21

In 2022, we received an NEH grant to advance our mission to amplify and assist scholars working to digitally recover neglected texts by women writers of the Americas. What did we do with it? A lot! Read all about the Recovery Hub's work in our NEW white paper: recoveryhub.siue.edu/wp-content/u...

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 8

The SSAWW Graduate Student Caucus is excited to announce a new cycle for our Mentorship Match Program. This program, new to SSA WW last year, pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty mentor who will read and provide feedback on two chapters of their dissertation during the 2025-2026 academic year. The program concludes with a series of online panels in Spring 2026 in which graduate students and their mentors showcase graduate students’ developing dissertation projects. This is a great opportunity for graduate students to obtain feedback on your work, make connections with faculty who are not at your institution, and share your dissertation project with a wider audience.
If you are a dissertating graduate student interested in participating in this program during the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year, we ask that you complete this short form to give us more information on the dissertation project you are seeking mentorship on. This information will help us confirm your eligibility and find a fitting faculty match for your exciting work! Please complete the form by Friday, August 16 if you’d like to be considered for the 2025-2026 Mentorship Match Program.
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Putzi (jlputz@wm.edu).
If you are not interested in this program but would still like to be involved in SSAWW’s Graduate Student Caucus, please email Alice Martin (ajmartin@wcu.edu) to be added to the listserv.

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 8

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 7

All terrific pieces!

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 7

As Chapnick and Dean explain, this forum sprang from the anniversary of the book (celebrated at the ALA in 2023), a recent return to labor organizing, and an increasing interest in the conflicted heuristics of the Gilded Age. 2/3

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · Jul 7

Still in open access, from the latest issue of Legacy: the incredible forum on Louisa May Alcott's 1873 novel Work, introduced by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean! Follow the link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic.... 1/3

Title page of Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa M. Alcott (First edition)

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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social · Jun 19

In honor of Juneteenth, check out the Teaching Hard History podcast from Learning for Justice, to "commit to teaching the hard history that is foundational to the US and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality." Includes episodes centered on film and literature. lfj.pub/hard-history...

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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social · Jun 17

Did you know that the Recovery Hub offers free consultations on digital recovery projects? We're here to help you work through questions at any stage of your project, from early imaginings to the final product. #academicsky

Book a chat with a digital humanist!
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