Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: "True Christian Philanthropy" -- or, a Release from the "Prison-House" of Marriage: Fictional Representations of Feminist Activism in the 1870s -- CHAPTER TWO: Expanding the Vision of Feminist Activism: Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Hamlin Garland's A Spoil of Office -- CHAPTER THREE: Making It New: Middlebrow Literary Culture and Twentieth-Century Suffrage Fiction -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Political Is Personal: What Henry James's The Bostonians Can Teach Feminist Activists -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.