Developments in Women's Writing
Regional Voices, National Voices
Issues and Visions in Post-Civil War America
New Explorations of an "American" Self

Voice of the Shuttle
Authors, works, projects from the 19th century
Nineteenth Century Studies: Journal information
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Covers authors of the Romantic, Transcendentalist, Realist, and Colonial periods.
Encyclopedia Britannica's Nineteenth Century Literature

Developments in Women's Writing

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature: T-AMLIT syllabus
A Celebration of Women Writers: from Mary Mack at Carnegie Mellon

Julia A.J. Foote (1823-1900)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Short Story Search
Includes links to seven shorts.
Life in the Iron Mills
Site created by American Lit. Class at UT-Austin.  Includes Interchange session.
Janice Milner Lassiter' Introduction and Bibliography
An extensive list of print sources.

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Little Women
Online version.
The Louisa May Alcott Web
Links to writing, criticism, photos.
Hospital Sketches
3 sketches from Alcott's turn as a a nurse during the Civil War.
Louisa May Alcott page
Biography, annotated bibliography, and list of works.
Literary Giants on the WWW: Little Women
Class project at UVA, with annotated chapters and extensive critical bibliography.
Thomas Hampson's I Hear America Singing
Profile of the Alcotts.
Atlantic Unbound: "The Stories of Louisa May Alcott"
Atlantic Monthly's Arts and Culture page.

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
Brief biography of Spofford's detective fiction.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

"Kentucky Belle"
From "Poetry and Musicof the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."
Gender Implications in Henry James's "The Pupil" and Constance Woolson's "A Transplanted Boy"
Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, May 1992 by Sharon L. Dean.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)

The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
Links to a handful of short stories.

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Jenny Taylor's American Literature Resources
Includes text for "The White Heron" as well as chronology, bibliography, and links to criticism.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
A tour of Jewett's family home in Maine, with photos, floorplans, and antique objects.
Women Regionalists Revisited
"The limits of local color" addresses Jewett's assessment of Stowe as well as connecting Phelps.
"White Heron" site
U Texas site with text and student criticism.
America in the Gilded Age
Anthology tracing movement toward realism; Jewett in context with contemporaries.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Project 1 and 2: The Life and Literature of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A tour through stories, and biography with a look at the early 19th century women's movement.
Student Projects: "Sweet Solitude," Two Independent Women," Louisa and Edna"
Mohave Community College site on post Civil War literature.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

Author's Hidden Life.
Leah Blatt Glasser writes feminist perspective on Hopkins' "hidden life."

A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth Century American Women

Poet Links: Professor Eiichi Hishikawa Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.

A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s

Regional Voices, National Voices

Dottie Webb's "19th Century Regional Writing"

A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920

African-American Folktales

Studying African-American Literature in Its Global Context
Samuel B. Olorounto in the Virginia Community Colleges Association Journal

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)

Mark Twain from the Mining Company
Jim Zwick's extensive site provides searches, bibliography, film, criticism, and much more.
Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, and Related Resources
Numerous news articles and an alpha list of quotations.
Mark Twain Forum Home Page
An introduction to mailing list for those with scholarly interests in Twain's work.
Mark Twain in His Times
From UVA's Electronic Text Center, links to contemporary reviews, interactive sites, full length texts.
Mark Twain in Hartford
Includes family history, photos, letters as well as a Gift Shop of Twain Museum.
The Mark Twain Library
Includes several manuscripts and commentary.
Mark Twain Project at Berkeley
Information regarding the Twain Project archives housed at the Bancroft Library.
The Captain's Web site
A site for riverboat enthusiasts, includes "tour" of Mississippi River and discussion lists.
Twain sites in Elmira, NY
Residence for Mark Twain Scholars, the Elmira College site contains links to Twain sources on the Web.

George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

Cable's Letters Home from the Road
Excerpts from notes scribbled to his wife during performances.
Perspectives in American Literature
Brief bibliography and link to Old Creole Days.

Grace King (1852-1932)

Crescent City Literature
A history of New Orleans writers told in comparison to Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

Access Atlanta
Tour information for the Wren's Nest, Harris' museum home.
Uncle Remus:Social Context and Ramifications
UVA site with annotated passages and contemporary reviews.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)

A Digitized Library of Southern Literature
Background and links to five stories.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Treasures of the University of Delaware Library
Brief biography.
Stamp on Black History
Student site with brief biography created for US Postal Service.
Digital Collections Inventory Report
Wright State Unioversity's pending online collection of poetry, novels, plays. Includes sound files.
"We Wear the Mask"
Online version of poem.

Alexander Lawrence Posey (Creek) (1873-1908)

Native American Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Creek authors and works.
A Creek Indian Bibliography

John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) (1874-1947)

Native American Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Cherokee authors and works.

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Louisana Local Color: Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Student essay.
Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History
Brief biography from LSU library.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
From the Gutenberg Project.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers
Biography and Archive list, with some annotations, from the U of Delaware.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

The William Dean Howells Society
Information, including links to projects and issue of the Howellsian.
The Eldritch Press William Dean Howells page
Links to online stories.
William Dean Howells on the Philippine-American War
Links to Centennial Books commercial site.

Henry James (1843-1916)

The Henry James Review
Includes several issues of journal.
The Henry James Page
Links to online articles and stories.
Cher Maitre: The Other Sides of Henry James
Project of The Mercantile Library of New York, with 3 essays on "James and the Feminine."
The Women Writers Henry James Influenced
Dr. Jane Benardete, Hunter CUNY
Timeline
Part of a student project.

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

The Kate Chopin Project
Currently inder reconstruction
"The Awakening": Not a Healthy Book
A controversial student essay with a string of email responses plus a link to the Gutenberg Project text.
Feminine Sexuality and Passion: Kate Chopin's "The Storm"
Student project.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Forked Tongue
Witty commentary on Bierces "Devil's Dictionary"
The Devil's Dictionary
Hypertext version of satirical "masterpiece."
Author of Supernatural Fiction
Presents links on the web, including Ambrose Bierce, Master of the Macabre

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Hamlin Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
Student project, contains text and comments on "Under the Lion's Paw."
Hamlin Garland
Introduction and links to other web sources.

Frank Norris (1870-1902)

The McTeague site
U. Texas site, includes student essays, online text, and Interchange session.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

The DMS Stephen Crane Page
U of Akron student project contains essays, photos, FAQs, and biography.
The Whilomville Stories
Numerous texts linked to site.
The Red Bdge of Courage Conference Page
Provides a list of links relating to the novel as well as a comprehensive list of Civil War sites.

Jack London (1876-1916)

The Jack London Collection
Berkeley's Digital Library, with links to texts, bibliography, criticism, photos, and more.
Jack London Square History Project
Clever but brief biography.
Jack London State Historic Park
Links to pictures, biography, and history of area.

Issues and Visions in Post-Civil War America

Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908)

STATEWIDE Interactive
The history of Standing Bear's fight for native American citizenship.
Famous Nebraskan Native Americans
A shorter history of Standing Bear's trial.

Ghost Dance Songs

Ghost Dance
From "Travels with Daniel," an historical trip site with text on Custer, the Massacre at Wounded Knee and more.
The Ghost Dance Among the Lakota

Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)

Indigenous Peoples' Literature
Links to Eastman's work, including reflections on numerous Native American Chiefs.
Dr. Charles A. Eastman Ohiyesa (Winner) Wahpeton Dakota
A Native American Indian Resources autobiography.

Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891)

Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife") (1836-1926)

Women of Courage
A short biography that is part of a site devoted to North Country Pioneers.
What Students Think is Funny
A teacher compares cultural responses to Woody Allen, Grace Paley, Marietta Holley and James Thurber.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)

Creative Quotations
Brief excerpt relating to the fourth African American woman to receive a Ph.D.
Our Story: Black Women
Brief biographies on many black women in education.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Celebrating Women's History Month
Biography.
"The Yellow Wall-paper" Site
With links to student projects at various Universities.
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter
Three online editions.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education"
From The Women in Literature and Life Assembly, an essay by Deborah M. De Simone.

Jose Martí (1853-1895)

Jose Marti & Martin Luther King Jr: Brothers in Thought
From the Free Cuba Foundation, an essay with linked biographies to King and Marti.
A piece of Cuban history
A special interests story from the Miami Herald.

Corridos

Corrido Web Projects
Student projects, with links to audio and (Spanish) text as well as a few overview essays.

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"Mr. Dooley on Imperialism: Satire by Finley Peter Dunne"
Short overview with links to essays.

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

The Profits of Religion
"Merriam-Sinclair Battle Outstanding in National Political Scene"
From the Museum of the City of San Francisco archives. Check related items.
"The Consequences of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms . . . "
An essay from the site EarthSharing.
"Manipulation of the Media"
From America's Top Secrets, an online expose of the wealth distribution in America.
Resources on Muckraking
Literature @ SunSITE
Includes postcards from Jack London and link to The Jungle.

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

The Education of Henry Adams: A Hypertext
From the UVA American Studies Program.

New Explorations of an "American" Self

Jewish-American Literature Research Homepage
Contemporary writers, with links to bibliography of Jewish-American secondary sorces.
Ethnic Studies at USC
Native American Resource Guide
Asian American Literature
Jewish American Resources

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)

The Forward Centennial
An editorial recalling the struggles of its founder.
"A Ghetto Wedding"and "The Russian Jew in America"
From The Atlantic Monthly, February and July 1898.
Congregation Emanu-El
A short biography of Cahan's contribution to Jewish-American intellectual movement.
"Yiddish Literature"

Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914)

"Teaching Asian American Literature"
From The Heath Anthology Newletter.

Mary Austin (1868-1934)

Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain
Text of Chapter 1 plus publication notes, biography, and reviews. Frames only.
"Uncovering the hidden history of regionalism: The American regionalist insurgency of the 1920s-40s"
Article from Cascadia planet e-zine.

Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)

Native American Indian Resource
Lengthy biography.
Jeanne M. Oyawin Eder on Zitkala-äa
Brief overview with essay, "A Woman of Two Worlds."
"American Indians in France in World War I"
Excerpt from a Master's thesis.

Mary Antin (1881-1949)

The Letters of Mary Antin: A Life Divided
An essay from the American Jewish Historical Society.
Heroic Women You Can Talk To: Two Boston Immigrants
A preview of a story-tellers travelling show.