Civil War

I've updated the 1860 page of the Timeline to reflect the dates of more battles.

A critical perspective from 1883

It is the women of a novel which determine its truthfulness. The very subtlety of the sex makes any delineation a test of the writer’s truthfulness in art; for while a writer who is a law to himself will make this subtlety an excuse for drawing characters which transgress all known laws, an artist will employ the same subtlety to bring into distincter light the obedience to law which underlies subtlety. “The East and the West in Recent Fiction,” Atlantic Monthly, November 1883, pp. 704-705.

Updates: Concord and Margaret Fuller

I've updated the Concord Chronology page with more information (some items are from John Matteson's Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father) and have also updated the Margaret Fuller page.

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

I've found several new essays online by Charles Eastman at Google Books and have added them to the page; also, the bibliography on Eastman has been updated.

Constance Fenimore Woolson Society

The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society site has a new address & updates: link at http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/woolson.htm

Updates to author society pages

I've updated the queries pages at the Howells and Wharton sites; also I've updated the brief definition of Gothic on the Literary Movements site: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/novel.htm.