Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
Men of Poetry, Politics, and Power: A Series of Fortunate Events
Armchair Travels and Types of Travelers
Circumscribed Women and Later Vocations
Italy as "Museum" and "Spectacle": Actors and Agents
Part I. Portraits of Diversity
Chapter 1 Backstories of Diversity
Caroline Crane Marsh: Literary Activist and Ambasciatrice
Emily Bliss Gould: Glimpsing Garibaldi's Redshirts, Remembering Sunday Schools
Anne Hampton Brewster: Escaping Family, Chasing Charlotte

Chapter 2 Vignettes of Diversity
Emily Bliss Gould: A Bold Beggar
Caroline Crane Marsh: Library Lover and Activist
Anne Hampton Brewster: Mr. Kate Cromo
Diversity in Self-Presentation: A Summary View
Chapter 3 Summer of the Roman Question: A Window on Transnational Networks
Part II. Circuits and Networks
Chapter 4 Revising Daisy Miller: The Story of "Miss Jones"
Abroad Alone: Myths and Realities of Independence
Articulated Fears: The Malinconia
She "Must Do Something": Miss Jones as Activist
Chapter 5 "The Daily Ordinary": Language, Lodgings and Hostessing

Chapter 6 Circulating People, Circulating Texts: Associational Life
Public Texts and Personal Relations: "For Queen Anne"
A Wreath of Stray Leaves: Published Textual Networks
Il popolo romano: Varieties of Formal Associations
Part III. Varieties of Utopian Experiences
Chapter 7 Utopian Visions, Reform, and Religious Beliefs
Varieties of Religious Experiences: Miracles, Mariology, and Missions
Brewster: Miracles, Mysticism, and the Vatican
Marsh: Mariology without Mysticism
Gould: Avoiding Miracles, Engaging in Missions
Chapter 8 Emily Bliss Gould: "Works and Wants"

Travel Writing, 1866-67: Hours at Home and The Overland Monthly
"A Ways and Means Committee"
Gothic Riffs on Earthly Realities
Heavenly and Eternal Visions
Political Visions in "Gossip Abroad"
Published Documents of the Italo-American Schools
Private Letters and Their Political Meanings
Chapter 9 Anne Hampton Brewster: A Catholic Correspondent Negotiates New Rome
Anxieties of Arrival-Creature Comforts Compromised
Nero Nardi and the Vatican Council
The APOSTATE!: Negotiating Roman Catholicism
Women Loving Women: A Necessary Circle of Admirers

Brewster's Life Alone: Utopian and Dystopian Visions
Chapter 10 Caroline Crane Marsh: "The Power of Doing a Great Service"
Surrogate Motherhood: The Power and Service of Letting Go
Serving Schools: Fundraising at Home and Abroad
Transformations of a Reformer and Litterateur
"In Vain Have I Labored": Ideas of Italian Reform Revised
Coda: Residual Ripples
Hidden Lives & Unvisited Tombs
Appendix A: "To ____ ____."
Appendix B: "For Queen Anne"
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index