ABSTRACT
In September 1919, Elaine Goodale Eastman autographed one of the front pages of Indian Legends Retold for Louise Hudson, labeling the recipient both an 'artist and sympathetic friend'. In an introductory essay for The Voice at Eve, her 1930 collection of poems, Elaine Goodale Eastman looked back over her authorial lifetime. Goodale Eastman's The Voice at Eve essay seems as intent on highlighting grievances associated with the undermining of her Romantic pedagogy authorship as with the breakdown in their romantic affections. To recover some of the writerly luster Elaine Goodale Eastman saw herself as having lost through service of her husband's career, one essential step would entail revising the public picture of his authorship that she, ironically, had helped create. Elaine Eastman tried, over her long authorial career, to establish a personal version of Romantic pedagogy-early on addressing the 'Indian problem', then supporting a husband she had adored but who became in many ways a disappointment.
