Gloria Y.A. Ayee is lecturer and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and faculty associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.Dmitry Kurochkin is lecturer and researcher at Harvard University.Elena V. Shabliy is visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

• Chapter 1: Alice Meynell’s Negative Happiness: The Primacy of Emotion and the Nature of Art Laura H. Clarke Chapter 2: Struggles of the New Woman in the New World: The Life of the Nineteenth-Century Emancipated American WomanJacquelyn C. WennekerChapter 3: “One of a Sex so Weak”: Oppressed Womanhood in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of CasterbridgeTatiana Prorokova-KonradChapter 4: “I am, too, an Individual”: The Making of the Professional Woman in Netta Syrett’s Writing (1890-1899)Mariam ZarifChapter 5: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the George Sand of New OrleansAngela R. Hooks Chapter 6: The Wonderful Adventures of the “Motherly Yellow Woman”: Mary Seacole’s Emancipated Journeys and Public vs. Private LifeCamille S. AlexanderChapter 7: Women within Precincts: Colonialism and Racialization in The Madwoman in the Attic, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Jane EyreShilpa Daithota Bhat

Gloria Y.A. Ayee is lecturer and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and faculty associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.Dmitry Kurochkin is lecturer and researcher at Harvard University.Elena V. Shabliy is visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

• Chapter 1: Alice Meynell’s Negative Happiness: The Primacy of Emotion and the Nature of Art Laura H. Clarke Chapter 2: Struggles of the New Woman in the New World: The Life of the Nineteenth-Century Emancipated American WomanJacquelyn C. WennekerChapter 3: “One of a Sex so Weak”: Oppressed Womanhood in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of CasterbridgeTatiana Prorokova-KonradChapter 4: “I am, too, an Individual”: The Making of the Professional Woman in Netta Syrett’s Writing (1890-1899)Mariam ZarifChapter 5: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the George Sand of New OrleansAngela R. Hooks Chapter 6: The Wonderful Adventures of the “Motherly Yellow Woman”: Mary Seacole’s Emancipated Journeys and Public vs. Private LifeCamille S. AlexanderChapter 7: Women within Precincts: Colonialism and Racialization in The Madwoman in the Attic, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Jane EyreShilpa Daithota Bhat

Gloria Y.A. Ayee is lecturer and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and faculty associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.Dmitry Kurochkin is lecturer and researcher at Harvard University.Elena V. Shabliy is visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

• Chapter 1: Alice Meynell’s Negative Happiness: The Primacy of Emotion and the Nature of Art Laura H. Clarke Chapter 2: Struggles of the New Woman in the New World: The Life of the Nineteenth-Century Emancipated American WomanJacquelyn C. WennekerChapter 3: “One of a Sex so Weak”: Oppressed Womanhood in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of CasterbridgeTatiana Prorokova-KonradChapter 4: “I am, too, an Individual”: The Making of the Professional Woman in Netta Syrett’s Writing (1890-1899)Mariam ZarifChapter 5: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the George Sand of New OrleansAngela R. Hooks Chapter 6: The Wonderful Adventures of the “Motherly Yellow Woman”: Mary Seacole’s Emancipated Journeys and Public vs. Private LifeCamille S. AlexanderChapter 7: Women within Precincts: Colonialism and Racialization in The Madwoman in the Attic, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Jane EyreShilpa Daithota Bhat