American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (Hardcover)

Introduction: 'lady-writers' and 'copyright, authors, and authorship' in nineteenth-century America; 1. Authors, wives, slaves: coverture, copyright, and authorial dispossession, 1831?1869; 2. Suited to the market: Catharine Sedgwick, female authorship, and the literary property debates, 1822?1842; 3. When I can read my title clear: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement case (1853); 4. Every body sees the theft: Fanny Fern and periodical reprinting in the 1850s; 5. A 'rank rebel' lady and her literary property: Augusta Jane Evans and copyright, the Civil War and after, 1861?1868; ; Epilogue. Belford v. Scriber (1892) and the ghost of Mary Virginia Terhune's Phemie's Temptation (1869); or, the lessons of the 'lady-writers' of the 1820's through the 1860s for literary history and twenty-first-century copyright law.