Editor’s Note

With this issue of the journal we welcome a new book review editor, Jean Marie Lutes of Villanova University. A longtime Legacy consultant and former Legacy board member, Jean is the author of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930 (Cornell UP, 2006) and is a prolific scholar of women and periodical print culture. We are grateful to have her as part of the team, and we invite you to send her your books for review and to contact her if you are interested in contributing to our book review section.

For the past several months, Jean has been shadowing outgoing book review editor Sari Edelstein. On behalf of the journal, I thank Sari for the superb work she has done in this role over the past three years. As her term comes to a close, I affirm the editors’ deep appreciation for her vision, creativity, and editorial acumen, which have made book reviews an innovative, fresh, and even more meaningful part of each issue’s scholarly intervention. Through her advancements she has provided future book review editors with big shoes to fill but also with a wonderful infrastructure on which to build. We will miss working with Sari, but I am pleased to announce that she will remain affiliated with Legacy as a consultant. I am grateful that we will thus continue to benefit from her expertise.

Although this issue’s masthead reflects the book review section’s new leadership, I would like to give Sari due credit for preparing that section’s contents, which were completed before the conclusion of her term.

Finally, I am happy to announce that the University of Nebraska Press, which publishes Legacy, has recently modified its stance on what constitutes previously published work. It is now acceptable for authors to submit work to the journal that is based on a conference paper posted online, work that has appeared online as part of a working paper series (that is, an unrefereed manuscript version of the article), or work of this nature that has been posted in required university repositories. However, we still are not able to consider previously published work that has simply been repurposed or any kind of work for which the author has transferred copyright through a publication agreement or its legal equivalent. We understand that authors want—and indeed are sometimes required—to share their scholarship in the ways listed above, and we hope that the relaxed policy will make it easier for them to submit their work to Legacy.