"McFabben's thorough research, particularly on women who might not be familiar to an Anglo-American audience, is remarkable." -- Victorian Studies
"Wide-ranging and engaging...McFadden has recreated a nineteenth-century world of female assocation." -- Ohio History
“Replete with notes and bibliography, this women’s studies book . . . plows new ground.” -- Journal of the West
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"Students of women's history will find an assemblage that illuminates the effect on women of a developing transatlantic context.-- Contemporary Sociology" -- Contemporary Sociology
"What is so remarkable about the book is that it confirms what we know had to be -- namely that there was a precondition for the women's movement, and that it was global. McFadden has made that past come alive.-- Dana Greene, St. Mary's College of Maryland" -- Dana Greene, St. Mary's College of Maryland
"Demonstrates without a question that the tradition of transatlantic communication are far older than most historians realize and that the women's movement was inherently international.-- Educational Book Review" -- Educational Book Review
"Impressively researched and important.... Helps open the way to a whole further area of exploration in women's history.-- Historian" -- Historian
"Replete with notes and bibliography, this women's studies book... plows new ground.-- Journal of the West" -- Journal of the West
"A pioneering, wide-ranging work. This study will pave the way to new discoveries about nineteenth-century feminist networks, as well as clarify the complexity of their linkages.-- Karen Offen, Stanford University" -- Karen Offen, Stanford University
"A highly original and interdisciplinary work. McFadden argues that a variety of connections among women throughout the nineteenth century underlay the emergence of the international women's organizations at the end of the century. This is an important argument not made anywhere else.-- Leila Rupp, Ohio State University" -- Leila Rupp, Ohio State University
"An excellent introduction to a number of important women and the ways they communicated.-- Library Journal" -- Library Journal
"What has previously been a gray area of assumptions about the precursors to the international women's organizations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been made clear and explicit by McFadden's work.-- NWSA Journal" -- NWSA Journal
"Wide-ranging and engaging.... McFadden has recreated a nineteenth-century world of female association.-- Ohio History" -- Ohio History
"McFadden's thorough research, particularly on women who might not be familiar to an Anglo-American audience, is remarkable.-- Victorian Studies" -- Victorian Studies
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