Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America.(Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910)(Book Review)

Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America. through Patricia Okker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Pres 2003 202 pp $3750

azure Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910 Edited through Sharon M. Harris. Foreword through Ellen Gruber Garvey. Boston: Northeastern University Pres 2004 320 pp $4500

Patricia Okker's investigation of serialized novels published in nineteenth-century American magazines is elegantly conceived and execut Beginning her chronological case studies with the serialization of Jeremy Belknap's The Foresters