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Contents: Introduction, Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris; Part I Letters and Transnationalism: ’ A continual and almost exclusive correspondence’: Philip Mazzei’s transatlantic citizenship, Chiara Cillerai; Letters on the use of letters in narratives: Catherine, Macauley, Susannah Rowson, and the Warren-Adams correspondence, Eve Tavor Bannet; Anticipating colonialism: US letters on Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1831–1835, Ivonne M. Garcia. Part II Letters and Authorship: The authentic fictional letters of Charles Brockden Brown, Elizabeth Hewitt; Keys to ’the labyrinth of my own being’: Margaret Fuller’s epistolary invention of the self, Jeffrey Steele; ’Two single married women’: the correspondence of Elizabeth Stoddard and Margaret Sweat, 1851–1854, Jennifer Putzi. Part III Letters and Periodicals: Cherokee Catherine Brown’s epistolary performances, Theresa Strouth Gaul; ’Does such a being exist?’: Olive Branch readers respond to Fanny Fern, Bonnie Carr O’Neill; Dr Mary Walker and the economies of letter writing, Sharon M. Harris; A less costly ink: John Brown’s Prison Letters and the traditions of American protest literature, Zoe Trodd. Part IV Letters and 21st Century Editions: Authorship, network, textuality: editing Mercy Otis Warren’s letters, Jeffrey H. Richards; The request of a line: on editing Harriet Jacobs’s Life Among the Contrabands, Scott M. Korb; Edited letter collections as epistolary fictions: imagining African American women’s history in Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends, Linda M. Grasso; Index.

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