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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

 

Selected Bibliography on Alice Dunbar-Nelson Finding aid for the Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers at the University of Delaware Image of a page from Dunbar-Nelson's journal at the University of Delaware. Audio version of "The Stones of the Village" at scribblingwomen.orgThis site also includes commentary and background from scholars Barbara Ewell and Pamela Menke. (Free registration required.) Gloria (Akasha) Hull on teaching Alice Dunbar-Nelson from the Heath Anthology site Primary and secondary bibliography from Cynthia L. Gregory's Harlem Renaissance site.  Biographical sketch from the Modern American Poetry site. Alice Dunbar-Nelson as an educator from Judith Gibson's "Mighty Oaks: Five Black Educators" Review of a new book on Alice Moore and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mary Loeffelholz's commentary on "I Sit and Sew" Image courtesy of the Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware

Works  Violets and Other Tales (Monthly Review, 1895) at the Digital Schomburg Center for African American Women's Writing Mine Eyes Have Seen (play) at the Women of Color, Women of Words site.  The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895) at the Schomburg Center. Includes the title story as well as the following: "Tony's Wife" "The Fisherman of Pass Christian" "M'sieu Fortier's Violin" "By the Bayou St. John" "When the Bayou Overflows" "Mr. Baptiste" "A Carnival Jangle" "Little Miss Sophie" "Sister Josepha" "The Praline Woman" "Odalie" "La Juanita" "Titee" "Hope Deferred" (1914) Comments to D. Campbell.