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Index American Monthly Magazine, 8 Anthony, David, 10, 11, 221n11 Armstrong, Nancy, 69 Arthur, Timothy Shay, 7, 108 Ashworth, John, 229n2 Balleisen, Edward J., 193, 221n6 bankruptcy, 3, 5, 15, 16, 29, 53, 55, 146, 150, 153, 159, 193, 224n24, 227n3, 228n15, 230n15; bankruptcy laws, 56; in Constance Latimer, 37; in The Coopers , 206; in The Harcourts, 61–2, 80–81; in The Lofty and the Lowly, 165, 167; in Mabel Vaughan, 187, 196; in The Planter’s Daughter, 181; in Rich Enough, 38, 53; in Riches without Wings, 58; in Sketches of Married Life, 123, 126, 128–29 banks, 2, 5–7, 17, 27–29, 34, 41, 48, 53–55, 107, 108, 145, 152, 156, 166, 206, 208, 211, 222n8, 223n21, 229n5; bankers, 65–66, 107, 143, 147, 160, 171, 222n8; banking law, 2; bank notes, 27, 35, 55; bank stock, 46, 159, 168; suspensions of, 6–7, 53–55, 59, 61, 83, 146, 150, 168, 224nn23–24 Bank War, 3, 27, 221n6, 222n8 Banta, Martha, 54, 224n22 Bardes, Barbara, 219n1 Basch, Norma, 227n3 Baym, Nina, 13, 16, 198, 219n1, 227n4, 227n6, 230n6 Beecher, Catharine, 86–87, 114, 226n15, 227–28n9, 228n10 benevolence, 20, 50, 71, 73, 74, 88, 90, 94–97, 102, 109, 114, 117, 120, 124, 125, 127–29, 149, 154, 187, 225n12. See also charity; philanthropy Bloch, Ruth, 227n4, 228n14 Blumin, Stuart M., 65–68, 85, 93, 225n5 Boydston, Jeanne, 111, 139 Briggs, Charles F., 7, 108 Brodhead, Richard H., 220n4 Brown, Gillian, 9, 12, 85–86, 88, 115, 138, 220n9, 227n4, 227n6, 228n14 Calomiris, Charles W., 55, 220n6 Cardozo, Jacob, 146, 151–52, 228n1 Carey, Henry C., 28, 34, 67, 222n14, 226n18 Carlin, Deborah, 95 Cayton, Andrew R. C., 17, 221n13 charity, 20, 50, 57, 72–73, 94–96, 116–17, 120, 124–25, 126–27, 161, 228n14. See also benevolence; philanthropy Charvat, William, 225n6 Child, Lydia Maria, 114, 207, 227–28n9, 228n15 Conkin, Paul K., 28–29 consumerism, 2, 9, 86, 88, 110, 112, 114–16, 164, 176, 189–90, 198, 208, 220n9, 227n8 Copeland, Edward, 227n8 Coultrap–McQuin, Susan, 51, 227n6 credit, 2, 5–6, 11, 17, 19, 27–32, 34, 36, 41, 48, 55, 56, 62, 73, 77, 83–84, 106, 107, 143, 146, 162–63, 207, 222n8, 223n16, 223n21, 225n9 244 Index creditors, 5, 10, 47, 58, 85, 108, 126, 128, 142, 161, 176 Cummins, Maria Susanna, 7, 21, 52, 185– 190, 195, 196–205, 214, 216, 223n18, 230n6, 231n7, 231n9 Cvetkovich, Ann, 221n12 Davidson, Cathy N., 219n1 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 9 debt, 29, 31, 43, 47, 56, 58, 71, 73, 79, 107, 117, 130, 131, 142–43, 165, 179, 193, 198, 206, 222n13, 223n16, 224n21, 227n3, 229n11; debtors, 10, 176; gambling debts, 47, 166–71; household seizure for, 134; “post–obit” debt, 159; repayment of following bankruptcy, 2, 52, 77, 84, 102, 126, 144, 165, 176 Defoe, Daniel, 30–31 De Grave, Kathleen, 113, 227n7 Dobson, Joanne, 219n1 domestic service, 20–21, 64, 66, 77, 91, 94, 97–104, 112, 121, 125–26, 135, 185–86, 195, 202, 210–16, 231n12 domestic fiction, 1–4, 9, 11, 13, 15–17, 70, 86–87, 112–14, 116, 135, 138, 158, 196, 201, 219n1, 226n13, 226n15, 227n6 Douglas, Ann, 227n6 Douglass, Frederick, 193, 230n4 Dupuy, Eliza, 42, 44–45, 58, 178–184, 230n16 economic booms, 1–2, 12, 19, 23, 25–27, 35, 36, 47, 48, 55, 73, 146, 196, 217, 224n23, 229n4 economic fiction, 2, 9–11 Ellis, Markman, 225n10 Elmer, Jonathan, 13 Embury, Emma C., 7, 19, 37, 51, 52, 58, 63, 70, 120, 124 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 6–7, 223n19 Fabian, Ann, 39, 45, 56, 102, 223n15, 226n14, 228n16 Feller, Daniel, 17, 26, 28, 29, 41, 56, 221n5, 221n6, 222n8, 224n3, 225n5 Fern, Fanny [Sara Payson Willis Parton], 189, 228n15 Fichtelberg, Joseph, 9–11, 221n11 Fink, Leon, 193, 194, 230n2 Fisk, Theophilus, 30, 35, 222n14 Fitzhugh, George, 148–150, 152, 156, 157, 160, 193, 229n9 Flory, Claude R., 220n7 Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 20, 109, 123–29, 136, 139, 140–41, 163, 178, 186, 196, 224n26, 228n13, 228n15 Foner, Eric, 191, 194, 230n2, 230n3 Foster, Edward Halsey, 131 Fourth Experiment of Living. Living Without Means, 226–27n1 Franklin, Benjamin, 71, 225n9 Gallagher, Catherine, 220n10 gambling, 33, 36, 44–47, 159, 161, 163, 164, 166, 168, 170, 175, 179–81, 221n2 Gentleman’s Magazine, 8 Gerould, Daniel C., 230n14 Gilman, Caroline, 91, 152–54, 159, 229n8 Gilmore, Michael T., 220n8, 223n19 Ginzberg, Lori D., 95, 117 Godey’s Lady’s...

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