BOOKS:

“Learning to Stand and Speak”: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (Chapel Hill: Institute for Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2006; Paperback 2008). http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-4820.html

The Portable Margaret Fuller (Edited with a critical introduction). New York: Viking/Penguin, 1994

The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Edited with a critical introduction). Boston: Northeastern University Press: 1993.

The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere (Jointly authored with Jeanne Boydston and Anne Margolis). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Edited with a critical introduction for the American Women Writers Series). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Oxford Galaxy paperback edition,1985. 2nd Edition, 1990. Reissue with new preface, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Woman's Being, Woman's Place: Female Identity and Vocation in American History (Editor and author). Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co., 1979.