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Marietta Holley (1836-1926)

 

Primary works and secondary sources bibliography Information on Holley and a picture at the Women Working, 1800-1930 collection at Harvard. Biographical sketch at northnet.com "Josiah Allen's Wife: The Story of Marietta Holley" (.pdf program script from a PBS special on Holley. Marietta Holley in "Minor Humorists" at bartleby.com A letter to Holley from Mark Twain's illustrator True Williams, with a brief comment from Holley added at twainquotes.com. Scroll down the page to see the letter. Correspondence with S. S. McClure at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Teaching strategies for Holley's works from the Heath Anthology site.  Drawing of "Josiah Allen's wife," Holley's fictional protagonist, from Samantha Among the Brethren Portrait of Marietta Holley, detail from the original courtesy of the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, New York. Works  My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's (page images at Canadiana.org) Samantha at Saratoga ( Project Gutenberg) Samantha on the Woman Question ( Project Gutenberg) Samantha among the Brethren (Project Gutenberg. Note: All other versions online are apparently taken from this version and reformatted.) Sweet Cicely; or, Josiah Allen as a Politician ( Project Gutenberg) Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition at Online Books "A Pleasure Exertion" from Little Masterpieces of American Humor

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