OTHER WRITINGFrom the New York Times Book Review“Dark Hours,” review of What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam, April 22, 2012. “American Heiresses on the World Stage,” review of America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad by Jehanne Wake, April 10, 2011. “The Voyager,” review of The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville, by Jay Parini, November 28, 2010. “Return of the King,” review of A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game, by Jenny Uglow, January 10, 2010. “John Singer Sargent’s Model Children,” review of Sargent’s Daughters: A Biography of a Painting, by Erica Hirshler, December 13, 2009. “Married With Children,” review of We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals, by Gillian Gill, June 21, 2009. “A Life Less Ordinary,” review of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley, “The King’s Bed,” review of Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser, October 15, 2006. “He Wrote the Words,” review of The Librettist of Venice by Rodney Bolt, July 30, 2006 “War Correspondence,” review of Blood and Roses by Helen Castor, May 7, 2006. “Women’s Ways of Knowing,” review of A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight, “His Brilliant Friends,” review of The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden, January 1, 2006. From Slate.com“Hey, Mr. Postman: Why e-mail can never replace the letter,” review of Thomas Mallon’s Yours Ever: People and Their Letters, posted December 7, 2009. “The Impossible Art of Deciphering Manuscripts,” slate.com posted February 8, 2008. “The Women’s History Boom: Transforming a Profession from the Inside,” review of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, posted September 4, 2007. “The Spirit of the Letter: What biographers find in other people’s mail,” posted May 17, 2005. Miscellaneous:“Academic Discourse and Adulterous Intercourse: What Campus Novels Can Teach Us,” “Why Biography?” common-place.org October, 2007. “The Other Sister: Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a Cad?” The New Yorker, March 21, 2005, 40-47. “Pretty Letters,” review of Peter Ackroyd’s Poe: A Life Cut Short, in London Review of Books, February 21, 2008. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains,” review-essay of Charles Capper’s Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years, in London Review of Books, November 15, 2007. “Sophia’s Crimson Hand,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, v. 37 no. 2, Fall 2011, 36-46. “Donating Family Archives to Schlesinger Library,” Schlesinger Library Newsletter, Spring 2011, 3-4. “Margaret and Her Sisters,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist Historyv. 34 (2010-2011), 19-25. “Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: The First Transcendentalist?” Massachusetts Historical Review,
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