America's Joan of Arc: the life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Early life and career

"The necessities of the hour": Anna Dickinson's Civil War

"Beloved of so many": the many faces of a woman in public

"A woman of earnest convictions": the Lyceum

What answer?: suffrage and citizenship in the postwar world

"What new grief has come to you?: the personal and the political

From the platform to the stage: clinging to fame

Decline and fall

A reputation defended

Conclusion: memories and legacies.