... by her intervention into the genre so popular with women poets of the time. Indeed, Dickinson’s strategies for writing elegies allows us to situate the convention-embracing and convention-defying acts of her female contemporaries—such as Amelia Welby and Sarah Piatt—as an integral part of the genre’s...

... century female literary historians envisioned in terms of a more inclusive and democratic American literary canon. Recovering a literary history largely erased by the turn into the twentieth century through a case study of Sarah Piatt’s career, this chapter focuses on two female literary historians...

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... of Arcadie” Mines “Love the Jester” Mines “Love is Eternal” Mines Mines Flavel Scott “My Messenger” Mines rose trope “An Aesthetic Fantasy” Mines Armstrong Isobel double poem Rose Terry Cooke Lucy Larcom Thomas Bailey Aldrich Sarah Piatt Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Susan Coolidge realism comic...