MARIETTA HOLLEY: FURTHER READING

Biography

Winter, Kate H. Marietta Holley: Life with "Josiah Allen's Wife." Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1984, 182 p.

Offers a critical biography that attempts to understand the forces that shaped Holley and her work.

Criticism

Armitage, Shelley. "Marietta Holley: The Humorist as Propagandist." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 34, no. 4 (fall 1980): 193-201.

Analyzes Holley's use of humor, asserting that it exposes and challenges women's ideas about themselves.

Curry, Jane. Marietta Holley. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996, 114 p.

Offers a full-length critical study; includes a detailed biography and chapters on Holley's most important writings.

Ericson, E. E. "The Dialect of Up-State New York: A Study of the Fold-Speech in Two Works of Marietta Holley." Studies in Philology 42, no. 3 (July 1945): 690-707.

Provides a linguistic study of Samantha at Saratoga and Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition.

Graulich, Melody. "'Wimmen is my theme, and also Josiah': The Forgotten Humor of Marietta Holley." American Transcendental Quarterly (summer-fall 1980): 187-97.

Urges renewed critical and popular attention to Holley's fiction.

Morris, Linda A. "Marietta Holley: Feminist Innovator." In Women Vernacular Humorists in Nineteenth-Century America: Ann Stephens, Francis Whitcher, and Marietta Holley, pp. 186-225. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.

Examines Holley's influence on American vernacular humorists and shows how those impacted were informed by her feminist perspective.

Ross, Cheri L. "Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Humor: Marietta Holley's Samantha Novels." Journal of the Midwest Language Association 22, no. 2 (fall 1989): 12-25.

Places Holley's fiction within the context of nineteenth-century American humor and examines her work in relation to current feminist humor theory.

Templin, Charlotte. "Marietta Holley and Mark Twain: Cultural-Gender Politics and Literary Reputation." American Studies 39, no. 1 (spring 1998): 75-91.

Traces the similarities between the work of Holley and that of Mark Twain, outlining the reasons for their disparate literary reputations.

Walker, Nancy. "Wit-Sentimentality, and the Image of Women in the Nineteenth Century." American Studies 22, no. 2 (1981): 5-22.

Includes a discussion of Holley as a feminist writer who used humor to attack the sentimental tradition.

Winter, Kate. "Marietta Holley, 'Josiah Allen's Wife.'" Legacy 2, no. 1 (spring 1985): 3-5.

Provides a stylistic overview of Holley's work.

Winter, Kate H. "Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)." In Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, edited by Denise D. Knight, pp. 224-30. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Overview of Holley's life, her major works and themes, and the critical reception of her writing.

OTHER SOURCES FROM GALE:

Additional coverage of Holley's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 118; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 11; Literature Resource Center; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 99.