Well-tempered women: nineteenth-century temperance rhetoric

1. Woman's rights in woman's wrongs: temperance women at mid-century.

2. Patriotic reformers: "called by the spirit of the Lord to lead the women of the world".

3. Woman-tempered rhetoric: public presentation and the WCTU.

4. Dissension and division: racial tension and the WCTU.

5. Red-nosed angels and the corseted crusade: newspaper accounts of nineteenth-century temperance reformers.

6. "The feelings of the romantic and fashionable": women's issues in temperance fiction.

7. "Wine drinkers and heartless profligates": water drops from popular novelists.

Conclusion: women of the century.