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  • Legacy Bookshelf
  • Leslie M. Hammer

Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions.

Individual Authors

Alcott, Louisa May

Foote, Stephanie. "Bookish Women: Reading Girls' Fiction: A Response to Julia Mickenberg." American Literary History 19 (2007): 521-26.
Heilmann, Ann. "Medusa's Blinding Art: Mesmerism and Female Artistic Agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic.'" Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture. Ed. Lucy E. Frank. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 205-15. 246 pp. $45.00.

Bradstreet, Anne

Hilliker, Robert. "Engendering Identity: The Discourse of Familial Education in Anne Bradstreet and Marie de l'Incarnation." Early American Literature 42 (2007): 394-404.
Howard, Joy A. J. "Women of Faith and the Pen, a Transatlantic Reading: Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-1678), Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (1648-1695), and Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)." Prose Studies 29 (2007): 394-404.

Child, Lydia Maria

Rutkowski, Alice. "Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction." Legacy 25 (2008): 83-104.

Cummins, Maria Susanna

Hamelman, Steven. "Orientalism and Sympathy in Maria Susanna Cummins's El Fureidîs." Legacy 25 (2008): 62-82. [End Page 349]

Davis, Rebecca Harding

Dingledine, Don. "Romances of Reconstruction: The Postwar Marriage Plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest." Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Ed. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. 147-59. 320 pp. $35.00 paper.

De La Cruz, Sor Juana Inés

Bergmann, Emilie L., and Stacey Schlau, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. New York: MLA, 2007. 312 pp. $37.50/$19.75 paper.
See Howard on Bradstreet.
Prendergast, Ryan. "The Self-Referentiality and Framing of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7.2 (2007): 28-56.

De L'Incarnation Guyart, Marie

See Hilliker on Bradstreet.
Woidat, Caroline M. "Captivity, Freedom, and the New World Convent: The Spiritual Autobiography of Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart." Legacy 25 (2008): 1-22.

Dickinson, Emily

Powers, Wendy Anne. "Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson: Parallel Lives on Opposing Shores." Brontë Studies 32 (2007): 145-50.
See also the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin.

Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.)

Bryant, Marsh, and Mary Ann Eaverly. "Egypto-Modernism: James Henry Breasted, H. D., and the New Past." Modernism/Modernity 14 (2007): 435-53.
Phillips, Kathy J. "Seeing the War through Cut-Off Triangles: H. D. and Gertrude Stein." Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Ed. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. 217-29. 320 pp. $35.00.

Farrand, Beatrix

Pearson, Carmen. "Profile: Introducing the Life and Work of Beatrix Farrand, Landscape Gardener and Writer (1872-1959)." Legacy 25 (2008): 128-41.

Fern, Fanny (Sara Willis Parton)

Lee, Kyung Ran. "Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall: Sentiments, Individualism, and Literary Market." Nineteenth Century Literature in English 11.2 (2007): 113-35.

Fuller, Margaret

Capper, Charles, and Cristina Giorcelli, eds. Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2008. 288 pp. $60.00. [End Page 350]

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Bendixen, Alfred. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Toolbox': The Value of Satiric Poetry and Social Reform." Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Paula Bernat Bennett, Karen L. Kilcup, and Philipp Schweighauser. New York: MLA, 2007. 161-71. 402 pp. $40.00/$22.00 paper.
Knittel, Janna. "Environmental History and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland." Foundation 35.96 (2006): 49-67.

Glasgow, Ellen

Evans, Anne-Marie. "Shopping for Survival: Conspicuous Consumerism in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life." Edith Wharton Review 22.2 (2006): 9-15.
Miller, Wendy Pearce. "Revising the 'Conquering Male': Constructing Gender in Ellen Glasgow's Virginia." Southern Studies 14.1 (2007): 63-71.
Zaugg, Brigitte. "Ellen Glasgow's Gothic Streak: 'Jordan's End.'" Nouvelles du Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories. Ed. Marie Li...

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