Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors

Explores impact of women editors on significant popular periodicals in 19th century America.

Contents:
Women periodical editors in the nineteenth-century United States
From intellectual equality to moral difference: Hale's conversion to separate spheres
Essentialism and empowerment: Hales' theory of separate spheres
The professionalization of authorship
Women's reading
Hale's aesthetics of poetry and fiction