MELISSA J. HOMESTEAD is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her book American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 includes Southworth, and her articles on American women’s writing have been published in a variety of academic journals.

PAMELA T. WASHINGTON is professor of English and former dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is the coauthor of Fresh Takes: Explorations in Reading and Writing: A Freshman Composition Text.