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Abingdon pauper workhouse, 128–29 abolitionist movement: Eliot’s Daniel Deronda and, 198–99; fugitive slaves, experience of (see Craft, Ellen and William; Jacobs, Harriet, in England); in Fuller’s New York-Tribune dispatches, 49; Stowe as celebrity traveler and, 71, 72, 77, 80, 83, 84; Stowe’s appearance at Stafford House and, 89–91, 98–99; as transatlantic cause, 122. See also passing; race; slavery Adam Bede (Eliot, 1859), 190, 193, 194 Addams, Jane, 79, 86n7 Adèle (Tennant, 2002), 274n9 Alcott, Louisa May, xxi, 257, 260–66, 272, 274n13 “All My Sad Captains” (Jewett, 1895), 287, 289, 290 American Copyright Bill (1891), 281, 297 American Female Poets (ed. May 1848), 3 The American Woman’s Home (Stowe and Beecher, 1869), 92, 95, 96 American women writers and Great Britain in the nineteenth century, xiii–xxv; collective identities and, xvii; in context of current transatlantic literary studies, xiii–xvii, xxiv–xxv; future of transatlantic literary studies and, xxii–xxv; reading communities, transnational, xx–xxii, 283, 292, 304; “Transatlantic Women” (2008 conference), xxii–xxiii; travel writing, xv–xvi, xvii–xx (see also specific authors, and Women’s Rest Tour Association). See also specific women writers and texts Ames, Mrs. Frederick L., 161 Amherst Academy, Dickinson at, 233, 235, 241, 247 Amherst College and Emily Dickinson, xxii, 234, 236, 238, 245, 247 Ammons, Elizabeth, 203 Anderson, Benedict, 62 Anglicanism/Episcopalianism, xx, xxi, 63, 127, 130, 132, 283 Appleton, Fanny, 25 Arnold, Ethel (niece of Matthew), 281, 302 Arnold, Frances (wife of Matthew), 280 Arnold, Matthew (poet; son of Thomas), xxii, 280, 281, 283–84, 300 Arnold,Thomas (headmaster of Rugby School), 57, 280, 284 Ashworth, Suzanne M., 227n18 Associated Charities of Boston, 284 Bailey, Brigitte, xiii, xviii, 28, 49, 116–17, 270–71, 309 Baillie, Joanna, xviii, 25, 32, 37–40, 42, 43 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 259 ballet, Sedgwick’s comments on, 34 Banks, Jennifer, 180–81 Barker, Joseph, 61–62 Barnum, P.T., 115–16 Barrett, Lindon, 150n4 Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 36, 78, 227n21, 257 Basbanes, Nicholas A., 86n6 Bassuk, Ellen, 157, 158 Baym, Nina, 225n5 “The Beauty of Soninberg: A Letter from Weisbaden” (Sedgwick), 31, 41, 45n19 Beecher, Catharine E. (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe), 92 Beecher, Charles (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe), 80, 91, 96, 101n2, 106, 108, 109 Beecher, Sarah Buckingham (sister-in-law of Harriet Beecher Stowe), 91, 97 Beers, Henry A., 121 Behind a Mask (Alcott, 1866), 260 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrative material. 316 Index Bennett, Paula, 7 Bentham, Jeremy, skeleton of, 67n32 Berlant, Lauren, xxvin11 Bhabha, Homi K., 199, 200 Bischof, Libby, xvii–xviii, xxiv, 153, 309 “black Atlantic” culture, Gilroy’s theory of, 122–23 Blackett, R. J. M., 124–25, 138 Blackwell, Alice Stone, 165 Blair, Sara, 51 Blake, Clarence, 155, 157 Blanc,Thérèse, 297 Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of, 4, 5, 13 Bode, Rita, xxii, 188, 309 Boggs, Colleen Glenney, xxiii, xxiv, xxvin7 The Bondwoman’s Narrative (anon., 1850), 257 Boosey vs. Jeffreys (copyright case), 213, 227n14 boudoir, private conversation between Stowe and Duchess of Sutherland in, 89, 92–95, 97–99 Bourdieu, Pierre, 80 Bradford, Gamaliel, 110–11 Bradshaw’s Railway Companion, 63 Braudy, Leo, 106 Bray, Alan, 205n4 The Bridgewater Treatises (1833-39), 235, 252n6 Britain, American women writers and. See American women writers and Great Britain in the nineteenth century British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 122, 125, 145 Brodhead, Richard, 108 Brontë, Charlotte, 116, 197, 255–57. See also Jane Eyre (Brontë, 1847), American readings of Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights (1847), 196, 255 Brontës, commodification of, 255, 273n1 Brown, Alice, xvi, 155–69; By Oak and Thorn (1896), 166, 167; A Summer in England (1891), xviii, 154, 155–61, 165, 167, 168–69; walking tours of England, 155, 166–68; WRTA organization and membership, 161–66 Brown, Elizabeth, 146, 150n6 Brown, William Wells, 138, 139, 142, 143, 145–46, 150n6 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 36, 78, 227n21, 257 Buck, Pearl, 79, 86n7 Buckland, William, 242, 245 Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), 73, 176 Burdett Coutts, Miss, 26 Burns, Robert, 57 Burritt, Elihu, 63 Burton & Co. (publishing firm), 220 Butler, Judith, 9 By Oak and Thorn (Brown, 1896), 166, 167 Byron, Lady, 38, 77, 81–82, 145, 193 Byron, Lord, 5, 78, 299 Cable, George [Washington], 300 Cain, Patricia, 227n20 Cambridge, Duke and Duchess of, 86–87n8 Campbell, J. R., 139–40 Canova, Antonio, 97 Capper, Charles, xv, 50, 55, 61, 117n5 Carlyle, Jane, 41, 42 Carlyle,Thomas, 5, 25–26, 34...

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