. . . . . . . . . . "During this period, authors including Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin worked dramatic transformations on women's literary and social roles, and on the theory and practice of gender relations in the United States." .