Volume 30, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: The engraving on the cover appears with this account in A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery with Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slaves . . ., written and published by Jesse Torrey, Physician, Philadelphia 1817.
“On the evening of December 19, 1815 an Afro-American woman, about to be sold and carried to Georgia as a slave, leapt out of a garret window of a tavern in Washington, D.C. Her arms were broken and her spine shattered. When asked the cause of her desperate act, she told Dr. Torrey, “They brought me away with two of my children and wouldn’t let me see my husband–They did’nt tell my husband, and I did’nt want to go;–I was so confus’d and distracted that I did’nt know hardly what I was about–but I did’nt want to go, and I jumped out of the window;–but I am sorry now that I did it;–they have carried my children off with them to Carolina.” She was given to the landlord of the tavern as compensation for having taken care of her.”
Table of Contents
Slippered Feet, Fiction by Daniel Wallace
Thoreau, Slavery, and Resistance to Civil Government, Non-Fiction by Barry Kritzberg
from The Book of the Deadman; Dark Brow, Poetry by Marvin Bell
Dachau ’44; The Tattoo, Poetry by Judith Berke
Noises Off: Catullus on Stage, Poetry by Richard Haven
Herodiade, Drama by Stephane Mallarmé, Translated, with an introduction, by David Lenson
Women and Individualism in American History, Non-Fiction by Linda K. Kerber
What Goes on in the Ladies Room? Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields, and Their Community of Women, Non-Fiction by Judith Fryer
Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Task of Discovering a Usable Past, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Go, Lovely Rose, Drama by Mary Manning, with a Foreword and Biographical Afterword by Doris Abramson
Contributors
Doris Abramson, Professor Emeritus of Theater, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, has published other essays on and interviews with several Irish actors and playwrights.
Marvin Bell divides his time between Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington. His books include seven collections of poetry from Atheneum, which issued his New and Selected Poems in 1987, and a volume of essays about writing, Old Snow Just Melting, available from the Univ. of Michigan.
Judith Berke‘s first book, White Morning, was published by Wesleyan University Press this past Autumn; recent work has appeared in Poetry, APR, and other literary magazines.
Judith Fryer is a professor in the English Dept. and Director of the graduate program in American Studies at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her most recent book, Solicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, was published by the Univ. of North Carolina Press.
Professor Emeritus of English Richard Haven writes occasional lyrics in addition to scholarly books and articles.
Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has published several books on American history, including Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.
Currently teaching English at Morgan Park Academy in Chicago, Barry Kritzberg has been a journalist and editor, and has published other essays on Thoreau.
David Lenson, while teaching in the Comparative Literature Dept. at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, has published two collections of poems, two books of literary criticism and numerous re views and articles.
Daniel Wallace lives in Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in The Yale Review, Prairie Schooner and other literary journals.
Scholar and teacher Cynthia Griffin Wolff has published biographical studies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson; she is now working on a biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe.