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Acknowledgments This book benefited from the support and contributions of many colleagues , organizations, and institutions, and my gratitude to each of them far exceeds the confines of these acknowledgments. Donald Ross deserves special thanks for his invaluable guidance and criticism during my research. I am also deeply indebted to Edward M. Griffin, who responded to early versions of each chapter with utmost care and discernment, and to Michael Hancher, who helped me understand American book history within the larger context of Anglo-American print culture. I am also grateful to the following scholars for their careful readings and insightful comments on the manuscript at various stages: Rob Brault, Michael Cohen, Hazel DickenGarcia , Christine Krueger, Elisabeth Malm, Toni A. McNaron, Karen Hartmann Roggenkamp,Angela Sorby,Danielle Tisinger,Emily B.Todd,Karen WoodsWeierman,andtheanonymousreviewersforUniversityofMassachusetts Press. In addition, Ken Carpenter, Frederick Newberry, Louisa Smith, Susan M. Griffin, and anonymous readers for the Henry James Review and The Lion and the Unicorn provided crucial feedback on portions of individual chapters.I would also like to thank Paul M.Wright for his dedication and continuing contribution to book history scholarship through his role as editor for the University of Massachusetts Press, and Carol Betsch, managing editor, and Patricia Sterling for their elegant editorial wizardry. Portions of the research and writing of this book were funded by scholarships and grants. I would like to express my gratitude to the following institutions and organizations for their generous support: the University of Minnesota for a Thomas H. Shevlin Fellowship, a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and a Supplemental Research Fellowship; the P.E.O. Sisterhood for a P.E.O. Scholar Award; the Houghton Library for a Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History; and the American Association of University Women for a short-term American Fellowship.In addition,I am grateful to Marquette University for providing me with research assistants and the opportunity to pursue my research while teaching. I particularly thank my research assistants, Christina K. Phelps at Carleton College, and Erin Kogler,Heather Pavletic,Moon-ju Shin,and Matthew Van Zee at Marquette , for their painstaking assistance with manuscript preparation and xi permissions letters. I also warmly thank my colleagues Tim W. Machan at Marquette University, Susan Jaret-McKinstry at Carleton College, and John Watkins at the University of Minnesota for their sage advice on scholarly matters. For their numerous small services that have accumulated to form larger ones, I would also like to thank Karen Nelson Hoyle and John Barneson of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota ; Becky Hoffman, of the Interlibrary Loan office at the University of Minnesota; Elizabeth Chenault, of the Rare Book Room at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Doris O’Keefe, of the American Antiquarian Society; Cornelia King, of the Free Library of Philadelphia; Mark A. Williams, of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Northern Illinois University Libraries; William M.Fowler Jr.and Peter Drummey of the Massachusetts Historical Society; James M. Smith of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University; and Stuart Walker of Boston Public Library. For permission to quote and to use illustrations, I am indebted to the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University; the Rare Books and Special Collections at the Northern Illinois University Libraries; the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota. The following materials are cited by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University: Thomas Niles letters, bMS Am 1130.81 (1–44); Henry James Jr. letters, bMS Am 1094 (1781), (1784), (1790), (1802), (1817); William P. Ticknor letters, James T. Fields letters,and cost book 1867–70,bMS Am 1083 (570),(572); and manuscript material by Frederick Law Olmsted,bMS 1083.1 (59) and bMS Am 1083.2 (70). Earlier, abbreviated versions of several chapters appeared as articles in the following peer-reviewed publications: Chapter 1 as “Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Goodrich, and the Transformation of the Juvenile Literature Market,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 26.1 (Spring 2000): 1–24; Chapter 2 as “Louisa May Alcott, William T. Adams, and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series Books,” The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature 25.1 (January 2001): 17–46, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press; Chapter 5 as “Innocence Abroad: Henry James and the Re-Invention of the American Woman...

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