A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments any people have helped make this book a published, hard-copy reality. I am fortunate to have wonderful colleagues and friends in San Diego. Glen McClish and Jacqueline Bacon have been extremely generous in reading various versions, providing advice, and encouraging my efforts. Ellen Quandahl also has provided support and perceptive feedback. My friends outside of San Diego have been equally helpful. I am particularly grateful to Lisa Mastrangelo for her knowledge of the Seven Sisters colleges , for sharing relevant sources, and for her willingness to read and comment on numerous versions of this project. Alexis Easley has also provided invaluable assistance, with her constant encouragement and helpful comments on many earlier versions of this manuscript. Thanks also to Rich Carr, Lillian Corti, Julia Garbus, and Susan North for their willingness to read and comment on earlier versions of this manuscript. I also am indebted to Barbara McManus for her thoughtful suggestions and for providing me with a copy of her typed summary of letters from the Helen Drusilla Lockwood collection. The summary was a tremendous help. Vassar College historian Betty Daniels also shared stories about the college’s English Department and generously assisted me in negotiating Vassar’s archives. In addition, I’m deeply grateful to John Gage, my doctoral advisor, for introducing me to Gertrude Buck’s work in his course on nineteenth-century rhetoric and for his continued support of my professional endeavors. I would also like to thank Lisa Ede, Suzanne Clark, Jim Crosswhite, and Barbara Welke for their valuable feedback while I worked on a very early version of this project at the University of Oregon. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series editors Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson have been extremely supportive, generous, and knowlxiii edgeable throughout this process. I feel very fortunate that they were the editors. I would also like to thank outside reviewer Katherine H. Adams for her insightful revision suggestions and overall support of the project. In addition, I would like to thank Karl Kageff, editor-in-chief at Southern Illinois University Press, and Bridget Brown, acquisitions assistant, for answering my many questions and for allowing more pictures in the final project. I would like to express my gratitude to previous scholars who have examined Buck’s work. In particular, I would like to thank Barbara L’Eplattenier, JoAnn Campbell, Vickie Ricks, Kevin James Koch, and Dana Hood Morgan for their dissertations and master’s projects. Their work was extremely helpful to me in completing my own project. I am grateful to Barbara L’Eplattenier for her willingness to read earlier versions ; for her depth of knowledge about Buck, Wylie, and the English Department; and for her generous advice. In addition, I thank Vickie Ricks and Dana Hood Morgan for reading and commenting on an early version of this project when I was in Oregon. Special appreciation also goes to those librarians who helped me access archival materials that were integral to this project. I am particularly grateful to Dean Rogers at Vassar, who provided beyond-the-call-of-duty assistance in locating a number of sources. I am equally indebted to Nancy S. MacKechnie, former curator of rare books and manuscripts at Vassar, who located Buck’s Vassar Workshop notebook. Thanks also to Karen L. Jania at the Bentley Historical Library, Patricia Albright at the Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections, Virginia Dent at the Harvard Theatre Collection, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff at Harvard University Archives, and Margaret J. Kimball at Stanford University Archives. In addition, I would like to thank William P. Sosnowsky for his kind help with the photograph of Harriet M. Scott, as well as Mary J. Wallace of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. I also am especially indebted to James A. McDonald Jr. of Kindred Roots Genealogical Society for his invaluable assistance in allowing me to use the photographs of Buck and her mother and father. The completion of this project wouldn’t have been possible without the support and funding I received from several organizations. I am indebted to San Diego State University for providing a teaching release that allowed me to finish revising the manuscript and to the Department of Rhetoric xiv acknowledgments and Writing Studies for helping to offset the cost of indexing. I also am grateful to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for supporting one of my trips to Vassar. In addition, I would like...