to Emily Victorson, outstanding editor and publisher of Allium Press of Chicago, Also to the Boston Athenaeum, which once again helped me to obtain some of the books I used for research. Thanks to Sophie Powell and the participants in her Novel in Progress workshops at Grub Street in Boston, where I received useful reviews by my fellow authors. And thanks again to Nancy Braun and Anne Sharfman for being beta readers. I miss our old writers group.
The topic of this book is a little out of the way for my socially progressive character, Emily, but I hope it portrays one of the many powerful forces that were just beginning to make an impact on the world, which became the one we live in. I plan to continue the stories of Emily and her family and friends into the new century and I hope readers will continue to follow her adventures.