Introduction / Voices in the Wilderness / The Awakening Republic: Idealists and Realists / The Power of Words: Women and Politics / “Those scribbling women”: The Bestseller / Unabashedly / American: Regional Writing / On the Edge: Writers from the West / American Girls: The Juvenile Market / “The precious words”: Verse / The Turn of the Century: Transitions / Bound for Glory: Modernism and the New Bohemia / Indexes