2. In addition to Habegger, see Sara deSaussure Davis, "Feminist Sources in The Bostonians," American Literature 50 (Jan. 1979): 570-87, who suggested the popular feminist orator Anna Dickinson as a model for Verena, and Robert Emmet Long, The Great Succession: Henry james and the Legacy of Hawthorne (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979) who suggested Victoria Woodhull.