Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments I am grateful to the many people who have been supportive of my work on Laura Curtis Bullard over the years. Sharon Harris and Karen Dandurand have provided invaluable feedback on the introduction, and without their support or patience it would not have been possible for Christine to be republished. I want to thank Baldwin-Wallace College for the summer grant I received for this project, and Greensboro College, which also awarded me a summer grant for early research on Curtis Bullard. I am indebted to the Maine Women Writers Collection (mwwc) at the University of New England for giving me a summer fellowship, and most especially to Cally Gurley, director of the mwwc, for her inspiring enthusiasm and help, not only to me, but to all of those researching American women writers. Charlene Avallone kindly shared with me a paper she delivered at the 2005 Modern Language Association convention on Christine , Isa, and Mary Lyndon, which introduced me to the two latter novels. Elizabeth Stevens, a research librarian at the Bangor Public Library, and Earle G. Shettleworth of the Maine Historical Commission were extraordinarily generous in their help. As always, I am motivated by the example of Dorothy Baker, and viii Acknowledgments this project would have been impossible without her encouragement . I also want to express my thanks to the editorial department of the University of Nebraska Press, and especially to Sara Springsteen, who was the project editor, and to Monica Phillips, who was the copyeditor for Christine. I would also like to thank my parents, Dennis and Judy Kohn, and especially my mother, for her expertise as a librarian and her knowledge of New York City. Curtis Bullard dedicated Christine to her parents, who, she wrote, “have listened to these pages as I wrote and have at once been my audience and my critics.” I, too, dedicate this book to my parents and also to my husband, Robert Shelton, who graciously acted as my audience and critic and, most of all, buoyed my belief that Curtis Bullard and her work should be placed back into history. ...