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Acknowledgments Justaswomen’ssuffragewasnotwonbyanysingleindividual,thisproject owesitscompletiontotheeffortsofmanypeople.Firstandforemost,I creditSharonHarris’senthusiasmforthebook,andherlong-standing commitmenttorecoveringtheworkofnineteenth-centuryAmerican womenwriters.MycolleaguesatWestVirginiaUniversityhaveassisted meincountlessways;JaneDonovan,JohnErnest,MichaelGermana, KirkHazen,DavidKrech,CarolynNelson,andAlyssaWrighthavebeen particularlygenerouswiththeirtime.ASenateGrantfromtheEberly CollegeofArtsandSciencesatWestVirginiaUniversityenabledmeto do research at the Boston Public Library, Harvard University, and the New York Public Library, and a Riggle Fellowship afforded me a visit totheSouthernIllinoisUniversityatCarbondaleSpecialCollections. A book subvention grant from West Virginia University fostered the completionofthisproject.AndIthankKristenA.EliasRowley,Ladette Randolph,AnnBaker,LonaDearmont,andtheothersattheUniversity of Nebraska Press who have helped bring this book to its readers. Ihavealsobeenaidedbycolleaguesfromotherinstitutions:aDartmouth summer seminar in July 2007 was helpful early in the book’s compilation, and Bruce Mills of Kalamazoo College offered hisguidance along the way. Thiscollectionwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutearlier,foundationalscholarship :MadeleineB.Stern’sreader,biographiesbyMary Gabriel, Barbara Goldsmith, Lois Beachy Underhill, and new critical studies likeVictoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution byAmandaFrisken. The Woodhull Presidential Library, http://www.victoria-woodhull .com/library.htm, has been another useful resource. Finally, I thank my students, whose surprise in learning about Woodhull for the first time helped convince me of the importance of this project. ...

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