Alcott, Louisa May. Collected Thrillers. Ed. Madeleine Stern. On reserve. Your choice, or Recommended, choose one:
″Pauline′s Passion and Punishment″
″A Pair of Eyes….″
″Taming a Tartar″
Alcott, Louisa May. Plots and Counterplots. Ed. Madeleine Stern. Yet more thrillers. On reserve. Your choice, or Recommended, choose one:
″A Marble Woman…..″
″A Whisper in the Dark″
Alcott, Louisa May. A Long Fatal Love Chase. Unpublished novel written in 1866. On reserve.
Alcott, Louisa May. Selections from her Journals. Your choice. Consider a set of years, such as either her childhood (upon which LW is based), or just before and after the writing of Little Women. On reserve.
Alcott, Louisa May. Selections from her Letters. Your choice. Consider a set of years, such as either her childhood (upon which LW is based), or just before and after the writing of Little Women. On reserve.
Alcott, Louisa May. Alternative Alcott, ed. Elaine Showalter. On reserve. Recommended (choose one):
″Hospital Sketches″−based on LMA′s experience as a Civil War nurse
″My Contraband″ ″−based on LMA′s experience as a Civil War nurse
″Psyche′s Art″−conflicts of women artists in LMA′s day
Work: A Story of Experience−women and work in LMA′s day
″How I went out to Service″−based on LMA′s brief experience as a teen
″Transcendental Wild Oats″−Fruitlands and the gender politics of transcendentalism
Alcott, William Andrus. The Young Wife; or Duties of Woman in the Marriage Relation. (1837). Popular guide book by LMA′s Uncle. On reserve.
Alcott, William Andrus. The Young Husband; or Duties of Man in the Marriage Relation. (1838). Popular guide book by LMA′s Uncle. On reserve.
Anthology of Women Poets. She Wields a Pen. Ed. Janet Gray. Choose 3-4 poems, any poet but Dickinson, please. On Reserve.
Anthology of Women Poets. 19thC American Women Poets. Ed. Paula Bennett. Choose 3-4 poems, any poet but Dickinson, please. On Reserve.
Beecher, Catharine E. ″An Essay on Slavery and Abolition, with reference to the Duty of
American Females″ (1837). UVA Women Writers Site, on line−main link on course webpage.
Beecher, Catharine E. A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the use of Young Ladies at Home,
and at School. Choose chapters of interest. Available at Colorado College Tutt Library. Excerpts also available on line : http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/snescebhp.html
Beecher, Catharine E., and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman′s Home. Ed. Nicole
Tonkovich. Domestic/ Housekeeping guide, not quite as popular as Beecher′s above. Choose chapters of interest. On Reserve.
Child, Lydia Maria. The Lydia Maria Child Reader. Female Abolitionist who edited Jacobs′s Incidents. Author of ″The Quadroons.″ Selections; you choose. On reserve.
Cummins, Maria. The Lamplighter. (1854). Very popular novel; the heroine, Gertie,
is an orphan. This is the novel Hawthorne complained about. On reserve.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. Selections from A Rebecca Harding Davis Reader.
Recommended: ″Life in the Iron Mills″
″Blind Tom″ and either ″The Wife′s Story″ (fiction) or ″Men′s Rights″ (essay).
Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall. (1854). Semi-autobiographical novel about a woman who turns to literature to support herself after her husband dies and her own family refuses to her help her. On Reserve.
Fern, Fanny. Essays. (1851-1872). Humorous and often about gender issues. Appended to the back of Ruth Hall, On reserve, above−where there is a review of Uncle Tom′s Cabin−or read her essays in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. B. On Reserve. If you don′t own the Norton, one copy is on reserve. Choose at least three essays.
Finley, Martha. Elsie Dinsmore (1867). First in a popular series of girls stories; published one year before Little Women. On reserve.
Fuller, Margaret. ″The Great Lawsuit.″ (1843). In the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. B. If you don′t own the Norton, one copy is on reserve. An early version of her feminist book, Woman in the Nineteenth-Century.
Fuller, Margaret. ″Unfinished Sketch of Youth.″ (1852). In the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. B. If you don′t own the Norton, one copy is on reserve. A personal account of her youth−she was extremely well-educated for a woman in her time.
Eastman, Mary. Aunt Phillis′s Cabin. (1852). An ″anti-Uncle Tom″ novel. Available through
Godey′s Lady′s Book. Popular, long-running magazine for women. Available at Colorado College, second floor periodicals. Go to the second floor, head south through doorway marked ″second floor south.″ Just to the left of the arrow pointing toward the Special Collections room is a short hallway marked ″Pre 1915 Periodicals.″ The Godey′s are on the long shelf labeled ″Cu/ He,″ on the south side, on a bottom shelf. Choose ONE of the following:
Godey′s year 1852 (same year as UTC).
Godey′s year 1853 (one year after UTC).
Godey′s year 1861 (same year as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl).
Godey′s Jan-June 1849 (three years before UTC).
Godey′s Jan-June 1868 (same year as Little Women)
Godey′s July-Dec. 1868 (same year as Little Women)
Godey′s Jan-June 1869 (one year after Little Women)
Godey′s July-Dec. 1869 (one year after Little Women)
Hentz, Caroline Lee. The Planter′s Northern Bride. (1854) An ″anti-Uncle Tom″ novel. Available through Prospector. Also on line at http://docsouth.unc.edu/hentz/menu.html
Prospector. Also on line at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/proslav/eastmanhp.html
Piatt, Sarah M. Palace Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. Ed. Paula Bennett. Choose 3-4 poems. On Reserve.
Warner, Susan. The Wide Wide World. Extremely popular novel about the growth of a young orphan girl published in 1850. On reserve.
Wilson, Harriet. Our Nig. (1859). Spectacular but unpopular narrative by a northern black woman about her treatment in the north. Compare to Jacobs. 2 copies on reserve.