Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey
Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America / Lori Merish
"Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as a model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction / Mary Templin
Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel / Whitney A. Womack
"The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" / Debra Bernardi
Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert
"Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's motherly benevolence / Jill Bergman
Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak
"To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum / Sarah E. Chinn
Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" / James Salazar.