Emily Morse Symonds, who published nearly all of her work under the pseudonym George Paston, achieved literary recognition not only as a novelist but also as a dramatist and literary biographer. Her extensive body of work demonstrates the productive overlapping of these three interests. Her early novels reveal her to be a determined lobbyist for women's rights who explored the psychic and cultural pressures on women's marriage and career choices and the consequences of those choices. Her plays continue that exploration within particularized dramatic situations but also with a larger cast of characters and on a broader canvas of class representations. At the same time, Paston's biographical work added to her historical understanding of the position of women by tracing the idealized models of behavior, educational practices, and marital institutions that had shaped the experiences of women in previous centuries. These varied interests and achievements make Paston's work...