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Legacy’s special features extend past research articles to include author profiles, translations, collaborative forums, and "From the Archives" pieces reviving shorter works. These formats support recovery, conversation, and critical exchange on nineteenth-century American women's writing.
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- Ellen Gruber Garvey's "Less Work for 'Mother': Rural Readers, Farm Papers, and the Makeover of 'The Revolt of "Mother"'" - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 4/4

- Valerie Rohy's "Freeman's Object Lessons" - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- Jana Tigchelaar's "The Neighborly Christmas: Gifts, Community, and Regionalism in the Christmas Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman" - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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- Monika M. Elbert's "The Displacement of Desire: Consumerism and Fetishism in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Fiction" - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- Laura Laffrado's "Ella Rhoads Higginson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Pacific Northwest Women’s Literary Regionalism" - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Subsequent to the contest, the winners will be invited to expand their papers for publication in a future issue of Legacy.
The deadline for submitting papers to this contest is 3 December 2025. 3/3

Two prizes will be awarded, one for the best paper presented by a graduate student, and one for the best paper presented by a non-student member of SSAWW. If you attend the conference and read your paper in person, you will be eligible to submit that paper for this award.
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- "The Benevolent Education of Maritime Laborers at America's First Schools for the Deaf" by Mary Eyring - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Pictured: Portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale painted by James Reid Lambdin in 1831. 3/3

- "Learning to Read American Women Writers" by Patricia Okker - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- "Adulterous Individualism, Socialism, and Free Love in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Suffrage Writing" by Lisa Cochran Higgins - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/3

- Shirley W. Logan's review of In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- Courtney Murray's review of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of "The Bondwoman's Narrative": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/2

- Koritha Mitchell's "Frances E. W. Harper, A Model Citizen Who Couldn’t Vote": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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- Kate Adams' "Frances E. W. Harper and the 'Quest for a Usable Past'": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... !

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- Denise Burgher's "Recovering Black Women in the Colored Conventions Movement": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
- Hannah Wakefield's "'Let the Light Enter!': Illuminating the Newspaper Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/3

- "Not Feeling Right: Queer Encounters with American Women's Writing" by Sari Edelstein: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Pictured: bronze of Jewett kept at the Boston Atheneum (not exhibited, unfortunately! bostonathenaeum.org/library-coll...)

-"Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner" and the Transamerican Routes of New England Regionalism" P.Gleason: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
-"Withdrawing from the Nation: Regionalist Literature as Ascetic Practice in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs" C. Dowdell: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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