Jonathan Daniel Wells is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Origins of the Southern Middle Class: 1820-1861 and Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. He is a co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century. He has published several reviews and articles on nineteenth-century America, the Civil War, slavery, gender, politics, class and intellectual life, in journals such as The Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth-Century History and the Maryland Historical Magazine.
1. Introduction
Part I. Foundations: 2. Reading, literary magazines, and the debate over gender equality
3. Education, gender, and community in the nineteenth-century South
Part II. Women Journalists and Writers in the Old South: 4. Periodicals and literary culture
5. Female authors and magazine writing
6. Antebellum women editors and journalists
Part III. Women Journalists and Writers in the New South: 7. New South periodicals and a new literary culture
8. Writing a new South for women
9. Postwar women and professional journalism.
