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Contents List o f I l l ust r a t ions ix Ac k now l edg ment s xi Introduction 1 1 “All the Love His Bachelor Heart 16 Could Muster” 2 “New Notions and Wild Vagaries” 24 3 Breaking the Mold 35 4 Free Love and True Womanhood 44 5 “The Forms of Law” 57 6 Andrew McFarland and Mental Medicine 68 7 “A World of Trouble” 78 8 “An Unendurable Annoyance” 91 9 From Courtroom to Activism 104 10 “My Pen Shall Rage” 118 11 Shooting the Rattlesnakes 132 12 Vindication and “Virtuous Action” 145 13 Triumph and Disaster 155 14 Working in Her Calling 165 15 “Great and Noble Work” 177 16 Final Campaigns 190 Not es 201 Bibl io gr a ph y 233 Inde x 251 ...

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