Selected Bibliography on Frances E. W. Harper and Iola Leroy

Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century. 1991.

Ammons, Elizabeth. "Legacy Profile: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2.2, (Fall 1985): 61-6.

Bacon, Margaret Hope. "'One Great Bundle of Humanity': Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113.1 (1989 Jan.):21-49.

Berlant, Lauren. "The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill." American Literature 65.3 (Sept. 1993): 549-74.

Birnbaum, Michele Amy. Dark Intimacies: The Racial Politics of Womanhood in the 1890s. 1992 .Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) vol. 53 no. 6, 1992 Dec. DAI No: DA9230333. Degree Granting Institution: U of Washington. 1911A

Carby, Hazel V. (introd.) Iola Leroy. Boston: Beacon, 1987.

Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.1987. Harper, Frances E. W. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper. N.Y.: Oxford UP, 1988.

Carroll, Traci Reed. Subjects of Consumption: Nineteenth Century African-American Women Writers. Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Ann Arbor, MI. Article in: vol. 53 no. 11, 1993 May.DAI No: DA9309344. Degree Granting Institution: Northwestern U.3905A

Diggs, Marylynne. "Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity." Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed.). Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color. New York: Haworth, 1993.

Elkins, Marilyn. "Reading beyond the Conventions: A Look at Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted."American Literary Realism 22.2 (Winter 1990): 44-53.

Ernest, John. "From Mysteries to Histories: Cultural Pedagogy in Frances E. Harper's Iola Leroy." American Literature 64.3 (Sept. 1992): 497-518.

Fabi, M. Giulia. "Taming the Amazon? The Price of Survival in Turn-of-the-Century African American Women's Fiction." In Versluys, Kristiaan (ed.). The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance. Amsterdam: VU UP, 1995. 228-41.

Foster, Frances Smith (ed.) A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader. New York: Feminist P at City Univ. of New York, 1990.

---. Written By Herself : Literary Production By African American Women, 1746-1892. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.

Griffin, Farah J. "Frances E.W.Harper in the Reconstruction South." SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women (1988): 45-47.

Harper, Phillip Brian. "Private Affairs: Race, Sex, Property, and Person." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 1.2 (1994): 111-33.

Hill, Patricia L. "'Let Me Make the Songs for the People': A Study of Frances E. W. Harper's Poetry." Black American Literature Forum 15.2 (1981): 60-65.

Hill, Patricia Liggins."'Let Me Make the Songs for the People': A Study of Frances Watkins Harper's Poetry." Black American Literature Forum 15 no. 2 (1981 Summer):60-65.

Lauter, Paul. "Is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Good Enough To Teach?" Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 5.1 (Spring 1988): 27-32.

McDowell, Deborah E. 'The Changing Same': Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists. New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation18.2 (Winter 1987): 281-302

Miller, Ruth; Katopes, Peter J. "Modern Beginnings: William Wells Brown, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Martin R. Delany, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton E. Griggs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Frank J. Webb." In Inge, M. Thomas; Duke, Maurice; Bryer, Jackson R.. Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays, I: The Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. 133-60.

Nettles, Evelyn Elaine. Literary Voices of Nineteenth Century Reform Movement: An Examination of the Literary Works of Frances E. W. Harper. Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Ann Arbor, MI.Article in: vol. 53 no. 3, 1992 Sept

Peterson, Carla L."'Further Liftings of the Veil': Gender, Class, and Labor in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy."Hedges, Elaine (ed.); Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (ed.). Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 97-112

Pollard, Leslie J."Frances Harper and the Old People: Two Recently Discovered Poems." Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc. 4 no. 1-2 (1985): 52-6.

Price Herndl, Diana. "The Invisible (Invalid) Woman: African-American Women, Illness, and Nineteen-Century Narrative." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24.6, (Sept. 1995):553-72.

Sale, Maggie. "Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance." American Literature. 64 (1992): 695-718.

Scheick, William J. "Strategic Ellipses in Harper's 'The Two Offers.'" Southern Literary Journal 23. 2 (1991 Spring):14-18.

Tate, Claudia. Domestic Allegories Of Political Desire : The Black Heroine's Text At The Turn Of The Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Wilson, Kimberly A. C. "The Function of the 'Fair' Mulatto: Complexion, Audience, and Mediation in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy." Cimarron Review. 106 (Jan. 1994): 104-13.

Young, Elizabeth. "Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender."American Literature 64.2 (June 1992): 273-97.
Comments to D. Campbell.