"Born and bred in different nations": Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson / Dorothy Berkson -- Lines from a partly published drama: the romance of Frances Sargent Osgood and Edgar Allan Poe / Mary G. De Jong -- Subversion versus celebration: the aborted friendship of Fanny Fern and Walt Whitman / Joyce W. Warren -- A model for mentors?: Lucy Larcom and John Greenleaf Whittier / Shirley Marchalonis -- "I have no monarch in my life": feminism, poetry, and politics in Dickinson and Higginson / Raymond A. Mazurek -- Subordinated power: Mrs. and Mr. James T. Fields / Rita K. Gollin -- Traditions of gender: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James / Cheryl B. Torsney -- A social necessity: the friendship of Sherwood Bonner and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Lisa Pater Faranda -- When the marriage of true minds admits impediments: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells / Joanne B. Karpinski.