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Selected Bibliography on Grace King

Duet, Tiffany. "'Do You Not Know That Women Can Make Money?': Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature." Contributions to the Study of American Literature (Contributions to the Study of American Literature). Eds. Disheroon-Green, Suzanne, Lisa Abney and Robin Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. xviii, 220 pp. Print.

Kuilan, Susie Scifres. "The 'All-Seeing Eye' in Grace King's Balcony Stories." Contributions to the Study of American Literature (Contributions to the Study of American Literature). Eds. Disheroon-Green, Suzanne, Lisa Abney and Robin Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. xviii, 220 pp. Print.

Bryan, Violet Harrington. The Myth of New Orleans in Literature: Dialogues of Race and Gender. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Bryan, Violet Harrington. "Creating and Re-Creating the Myth of New Orleans: Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1987): 185-196. 

Bush, Robert. "Charles Gayarre and Grace King: Letters of a Louisiana Friendship." Southern Literary Journal 7.1 (1974): 100-31. 

Bush, Robert. "The Patrician Voice: Grace King." Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. Ed. Richard S. Kennedy. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 8-15. 

Bush, Robert. "Grace King (1852-1932)." American Literary Realism1870-1910 8 (1975): 43-51. 

Bush, Robert. Grace King : a southern destiny. Southern literary studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. 

Bush, Robert. Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings. Baton Rouge: La. State U.P., 1973. 

Bush, Robert. "Grace King: The Emergence of a Southern Intellectual Woman." Southern Review 13 (1977): 272-88. 

Capshaw Smith, Katharine. "Conflicting Visions of the South in Grace King's Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 36.3 (1998): 133-45. 

Clara, Juncker. "The Mother's Balcony: Grace King's Discourse of Femininity." New Orleans Review 15.1 (1988): 39-46. 

Clara, Juncker. "Grace King: Feminist, Southern Style." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 26.3 (1988): 15-30. 

Clara, Juncker. "Grace King: Woman-as-Artist." Southern Literary Journal 20.1 (1987): 37-44. 

Coleman, Linda S. "At Odds: Race and Gender in Grace King's Short Fiction." Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography. Ed. Dorothy H.Brown and Barbara C. Ewell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 33-54. 

DeJean, Joan. "Critical Creolization: Grace King and Writing on French in the American South." Southern Literature and Literary Theory. Ed. Humphries Jefferson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990. 109-126. 

Dresner, Zita Z. "Irony and Ambiguity in Grace King's 'Monsieur Motte'." New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca . Studies in Gender and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1992. 169-83. 

Duet, Tiffany. "'Do You Not Know That Women Can Make Money?': Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature." Songs of Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Lisa Abney and Robin Miller. Contributions to the Study of American Literature Number: 11: Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2002.

Elfenbein, Anna Shannon. Women on the Color Line: Evolving Stereotypes and the Writings of George Washington Cable, Grace King, Kate Chopin. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1994. 

Falvey, Kate. "'the Structures or Ruins of Life': Gothic Dislocation and Woman-Made Community in Grace King's Balcony Stories." Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences. Ed. Harde, Roxanne. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. ix, 493 pp. Print.

Ewell, Barbara C., Pamela Glenn Menke, and Andrea Humphrey. Southern Local Color : Stories of Region, Race, and Gender. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Hanrahan, Heidi M. "Grace King's Balcony Stories as a Narrative of Community." Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences. Ed. Harde, Roxanne. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. ix, 493 pp. Print.

Heidari, Melissa Walker. To Find My Own Peace: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910. Athens, GA : U of Georgia P, 2004.

Helen, Taylor. "The Case of Grace King." The Southern Review 18.4 (1982): 685-702. 

Jones, Anne Goodwyn. Tomorrow is Another Day : The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. 

Jones, Anne Goodwyn, and Susan Van D. Elden Donaldson. Haunted Bodies : Gender and Southern texts. The American South Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. 

Juncker, Clara. "Grace King." The History of Southern Women's Literature. Eds. Carolyn Perry, Mary Louise Weaks and Doris Betts. Southern Literary Studies (Slst): Louisiana State UP, Baton Rouge, LA, 2002.

Keely, Karen A. "Marriage Plots and National Reunion: The Trope of Romantic Reconciliation in Postbellum Literature." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 51.4 (1998): 621-48. 

King, Grace Elizabeth. Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters. Freeport, N.Y.,: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 

King, Grace Elizabeth, and Melissa Walker Heidari. To Find My Own Peace : Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910. The Publications of the Southern Texts Society. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Kirby, David. Grace King. Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 357. Boston: Twayne, 1980. 

Kreyling, Michael. "After the War: Romance and the Reconstruction of Southern Literature." Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise.  Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1983. 111-125. 

Kuilan, Susie Scifres. "The 'All-Seeing Eye' in Grace King's Balcony Stories." Songs of Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Foreword by Robin Miller. Contributions to the Study of American Literature Number: 11: Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2002.

McReynolds , Douglas J. "Passion Repressed: The Short Fiction of Grace King." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 37.4 (1983): 207-216. 

Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth S. "Grace King." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 8 (1975): 295-96. 

Nimeiri, Ahmed. "'Reconstruction which was also war . . .': Realism and Allegory in Grace King's The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 41.1 (1987): 39-54. 

Perry, Carolyn, and Mary Louise Weaks. The History of Southern Women's Literature. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Piacentino, Edward J. "The Enigma of Black Identity in Grace King's 'Joe'." Southern Literary Journal 19.1 (1986): 56-67. 

Robison, Lori. "'Why,Why, Do We Not Write Our Side': Gender and Southern Self-Representation in Grace King's Balcony Stories." Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. Ed. Royer Inness Sherrie A., Diana. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1997. 54-71. 

Shillingsburg, Miriam J. "The Ascent of Woman,Southern Style: Hentz, King, Chopin." Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise. Eds. Philip Castille, WilliamOsborne and Holman C. Hugh. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1983. 127-140. 

Skandera-Trombley, Laura E. "Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D.Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. WestportCT: Greenwood, 1997. 281-85. 

Taylor, Helen. Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin. Southern literary studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Wilson, Mary Ann. "Grace King: Southern Self-Representations and Northern Publishers." Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Yarington, Earl and Mary De Jong. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. xi, 496 pp. Print.



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