• Acknowledgments
• The World of the Sedgwicks • Nature and Custom: Five Marriages and a Ghost, 1774–1842
• The Harvest Moon: The Unhappy Life and Mysterious Death of Pamela Dwight Sedgwick • The Power to Bind: Eliza, Frances, and Theodore
• Bitterness in the Cup of Joy: A Stepmother, a Death, a Will
• Brutal Conduct: The Watsons • Trifling and Badinage: Four Courtships, 1813–1816
• The Heart That's Worth Possessing: Two Disastrous Courtships
• The Perils of Badinage: Harry and Robert among the Friendlies
• No Small Surrender: The Engagement Correspondence of Harry Sedgwick and Jane Minot, October 1816–May 1817
• The Only Consolation of Absence: Love Letters
• That I Might Be Worthy of You: Roles and Responsibilities
• To Translate Hope to Certainty: Setting the Date • Epilogue: Volumes Could Say No More • Appendix: Archival Sources • Notes • Index