Ashley Walters is an assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is coeditor of Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, which was a finalist for the 2025 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies.

• Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - "Love Letters of a Socialist": Anna Strunsky, Jack London, and Desire in the Library Archive Chapter 2 - "Like a Zangwill Heroine": Patrician-Immigrant Marriages and Progressive Era Celebrity Culture Chapter 3 - Romancing the Revolution: Anna Strunsky, William English Walling, and the 1905 Russian Revolution Chapter 4 - "Rose of the Revolution": Sinclair Lewis and Arthur Bullard Discover a Revolutionary Muse Chapter 5 - War on the Home Front: The Dissolution of the Patrician-Immigrant Marriages Chapter 6 - Scripting the Immigrant Woman: The Rise of Sonya Levein Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

Ashley Walters is an assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is coeditor of Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, which was a finalist for the 2025 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies.

• Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - "Love Letters of a Socialist": Anna Strunsky, Jack London, and Desire in the Library Archive Chapter 2 - "Like a Zangwill Heroine": Patrician-Immigrant Marriages and Progressive Era Celebrity Culture Chapter 3 - Romancing the Revolution: Anna Strunsky, William English Walling, and the 1905 Russian Revolution Chapter 4 - "Rose of the Revolution": Sinclair Lewis and Arthur Bullard Discover a Revolutionary Muse Chapter 5 - War on the Home Front: The Dissolution of the Patrician-Immigrant Marriages Chapter 6 - Scripting the Immigrant Woman: The Rise of Sonya Levein Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

Ashley Walters is an assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is coeditor of Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, which was a finalist for the 2025 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies.

• Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - "Love Letters of a Socialist": Anna Strunsky, Jack London, and Desire in the Library Archive Chapter 2 - "Like a Zangwill Heroine": Patrician-Immigrant Marriages and Progressive Era Celebrity Culture Chapter 3 - Romancing the Revolution: Anna Strunsky, William English Walling, and the 1905 Russian Revolution Chapter 4 - "Rose of the Revolution": Sinclair Lewis and Arthur Bullard Discover a Revolutionary Muse Chapter 5 - War on the Home Front: The Dissolution of the Patrician-Immigrant Marriages Chapter 6 - Scripting the Immigrant Woman: The Rise of Sonya Levein Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index