Foreword
Marianne Hirsch, Ruth Perry, and Virginia Swain
1. Introduction
Katherine R. Goodman and Edith Waldstein
2. The Beautiful Soul Writes Herself: Friederike Helene Unger and the "Große Gothe"
Susanne Zantop
3. Turns of Emancipation: On Rahel Varnhagen's Letters
Liliane Weissberg
4. The Sign Speaks: Charlotte von Stein's Matinees
Katherine R. Goodman
5. Goethe and Beyond: Bettine von Arnim's Correspondence with a Child and Gunderode
Edith Waldstein
6. Caroline Schlegel-Schelling: "A Good Woman, and No Heroine"
Sara Friedrichsmeyer
7. Marriage by the Book: Matrimony, Divorce, and Single Life in Therese Huber's Life and Works
Jeannine Blackwell
8. Escape to America: Social Reality and Utopian Schemes in German Women's Novels Around 1800
Ute Brandes
9. Reconstructing Women's Literary Relationships: Sophie Albrecht and Female Friendship
Ruth P. Dawson
10. The Vanished Woman of Great Influence: Benedikte Naubert's Legacy and German Women's Fairy Tales
Shawn C. Jarvis
Appendix: Sophie Albrecht's Correspondence with Identified Women
Notes
References
Contributors
Index