Golden cables of sympathy: the transatlantic sources of nineteenth-century feminism

Introduction: on beginning to tell a "best-kept secret"

Weaving the delicate web: Lucretia Mott and succeeding generations

Paving the way: the "miraculous era" in communication and the "unprotected female"

The ironies of Pentecost: women religious and evangelistic outreach

Unwitting allies: Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sand, and the power of literary celebrity

A developing consciousness: revolutionaries, refugees, and expatriates

Higher consciousness: reformers and utopians

Mothers of the matrix (I): Anna Doyle Wheeler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and forms of feminism

Mothers of the matrix (II): Fredrika Bremer, Frances Power Cobbe and "world"-traveling

"A golden cable of sympathy": Aleksandra Gripenberg, the Finland connection, and the 1888 Council of Women

Appendix A: Some Atlantic community women with international links

App. B: The relevance and irrelevance to this study of social network analysis

App. C: Adventurers and invalids

App. D: International governesses

App. E: Women transatlantic entrepreneurs in the nineteenth century

App. F: Women artists abroad.