Ellis Library Sourcepack for English 330
American Women's Writing, 1820-1865
| Background Information |
| American Eras Ref. E168.A5118 1997 Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History Ref. E169.1.E624 2001 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century Ref. E169.1.E626 2001 Dictionary of American History Ref. E174.D52 1976 Encyclopedia of American Social History Ref. HN57.E58 1993 Everyday Life: American Social History Ref. HN57.E93 1998 Encyclopedia of Women's History in America Ref. HQ1410.C85 2000 Handbook of American Women's History Ref. HQ1410.H36 2000 Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America Ref. HQ1410.P68 2000 Women's America: Refocusing the Past Ref. HQ1426.W663 1995 Literature and Its Times Ref. PN50.L574 1997 Women Writers in the United States: a Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History Ref. PS147.D38 1996 |
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Biographical Sources |
| Basic biographical information can be found in the following sources. For more detailed biographies, use the MERLIN catalog to do a subject search on your person's name, putting last name first. Scroll down the resulting list of subject headings to find biographies. |
| Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature Ref. PN471.B47 1992 Feminist Companion to Literature in English Ref. PN471.F45 1990 Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States Ref. PS147.O94 1995 Nineteenth Century American Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Ref. PS217.W64 N56 1997 |
| LION: Literature Online Click on "Find Authors" and type in your author's name, last name first. |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref. Alcove 9. Use the Literary Index or check the index in the last volume of this series to see which volume contains information on your author. The DLB also gives nice lists of the authors' works. |
| Discovering Collection(Also called "Authors Modules".) Use the "Person Search" or "Literature Search" to find biographical information as well as criticism and plot summaries. |
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Criticism |
| Criticism may be published in books or as articles in journals. |
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Use the MERLIN and MOBIUS catalogs to locate books of criticism about an author or topic. |
