...This chapter explores a crucial aspect of Engagement’s demise frequently left out of scholarly and popular analysis commentary: the often-intense personal struggles among America’s knowledge communities over policies and frames. Despite decades of expansion and diversification, the U.S. national...

.... The chapter looks at how Gilman's personal struggle, particularly against self-loathing and internalised patriarchal expectations, occurs as surmountable problems in her fiction but persists as painful ongoing battles in her letters. It shows how the letters reflect Gilman's private struggle...