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  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1: Alcott's Heritage: The Sentimental Revolution; Chapter 2: The Contradictions of a Sentimental Childhood: Louisa's Early Years; Chapter 3: Growing Up Female and the Family Claim; Chapter 4: Three Audiences and Three Images of Young Womanhood; Chapter 5: Feminism and the Family; Chapter 6: From Old-Fashioned Families to Families of Fashion: The Curse of Success; Chapter 7: Companionate Marriage and the Androgynous Ideal; Chapter 8: The Nurture of the Child: The Sentimental Legacy.
  • Chapter 9: The Family and the World: The Privatization of UtopiaEpilogue: The Legacy of Victorian Domesticity; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.