"Let me do nothing smale": Mary Moody Emerson and Women's "Talking" Manuscripts

“Folded up in a Veil”: Sophia Hawthorne’s Familial Ekphrasis and the Antebellum Travelogue

“…This writing takes part in what Noelle Baker calls "a 'third sphere' of public discourse, a social realm that mediates 'private' and 'public' spheres." 5 Notes succeeds by leveraging this "third sphere": the travelogue's allusions to private events through a public commentary make of Sophia's text both a familial and an artistic record, both a private and public document.…”