Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Social authors and disseminators in the age of the mass market -- In and out of print -- Textual appearances -- From the outside looking in -- Inside and outside the literary marketplace -- Conclusion: "The privilege of going on" -- Appendix 1: Charlotte Forten's "To a beloved friend; on receiving a tiny bouquet of wild flowers from the hills of our dear New England" -- Appendix 2: Lucy Larcom's "Mississippi and Missouri" -- Appendix 3: Excerpt from John Townsend Trowbridge's Martin Merrivale.…”