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Marietta Holley: Primary Works and Secondary Bibliography

 

Brame, Charlotte M., and Marietta Holley. A Rose in Thorns. Chimney Corner Series ; No. 47. New York: F.M. Lupton.

Holley, Marietta. My Wayward Pardner, or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. microform. Rose Pub. Co., Toronto.

---. Samantha at Saratoga; or, "Racin' after Fashion." New York,: F.M. Lupton Pub. Co.[1880]

---. Miss Jones* Quilting. The Sledge Hammer Series. New York: Charles Broadway Rouss.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. And P. I. : Or, Samantha at the Centennial. Designed as a Bright and Shining Light to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. London, New York: Ward Lock.

---. Autobiography.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife ' S Receipt Book, in Aid of "Our Charity Bazar." 99th ed. s.l.: s.n.

---. Woman's Rights. Toronto: Educational Pub. Co.

Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Marietta Holley. Miss Slimmens's Window. Chimney Corner Series ; No. 193. New York: F.M. Lupton.

Holley, Marietta. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's. Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book. Hartford, Conn.,: American publ. co., 1872.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. And P.I. Samantha at the Centennial. Designed as a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Hartford, Conn.,: American Publishing Company, 1877.

---. My Wayward Pardner; or My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. Toronto,: Rose-Belford Publ., 1880.

---. Betsey Bobbett. A Drama. Scenes Drawn from the Book My Opinions and Betsey Bobbett's. Adams, N.Y.,: W.J. Allen printer, 1880.

---. The Lament of the Mormon Wife : A Poem. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1880. (rare)

---. Samantha at Saratoga. Chicago: Henneberry, 1880.

---. Miss Richards' Boy, and Other Stories. Hartford, Conn.,: American Publishing Company, 1883.

---. Samantha at the Centennial. American Pub. Co., Hartford, Conn., 1884.

---. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's : Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1884.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. And P. I. Samantha at the Centennial. Designed as a Bright and Shining Light to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Hartford, Conn.,: American Pub. Co., 1884.

Holley, Marietta. Sweet Cicely; or, Josiah Allen as a Politician. New York etc.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885.

Holley, Marietta, and Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. Miss Jones' Quilting. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1887.

Holley, Marietta, and Frederick Burr Opper. Samantha at Saratoga, or, "Flirtin' with Fashion". Cincinnati, Ohio: E. R. Curtis & Co. Publishers, 1887.

Holley, Marietta. My Wayward Pardner, or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1887.

---. Sweet Cicely; or, Josiah Allen as a Politician. 11th ed. New York etc.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1887.

Holley, Marietta, and W. Hamilton Gibson. Poems. Funk & Wagnalls publishers, New York ; London, 1887.

Holley, Marietta, and True Williams. Miss Richards' Boy : And Other Stories. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1887.

Holley, Marietta. Poems. microform. W. Briggs ;C.W. Coates, TorontoMontreal, 1887.

Holley, Marietta. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. And P. I. : Samantha at the Centennial. Designed as a Bright and Shining Light to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1887.

---. Miss Jones' Quilting. New York,: American Publishers Corp., 1887.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. And P.I. : Samantha at the Centennial : Designed as a Bright and Shining Light to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1888.

---. My Wayward Pardner, or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1888.

---. Miss Richards' Boy : And Other Stories. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1888.

---. Betsey Bobbett. A Drama. Scenes Drawn from the Book My Opinions and Betsey Bobbett*S. Adams, N.Y.,: W.J. Allen printer, 1889.

---. The Widder Doodle's Courtship : And Other Sketches. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1890.

Holley, Marietta, and Frederick Burr Opper. Samantha at Saratoga, or, "Flirtin' with Fashion". Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., 1890.

Holley, Marietta, and J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. The Widder Doodle's Courtship : And Other Sketches. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1890.

---. Samantha among the Brethren. New York etc.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890.

Carey, T. J., et al. Popular Recitations:Consisting of Choice Prose and Poetical Selections, Standard Plays and Farces, for Public and Parlor Entertainments. New York, N.Y.: Excelsior Pub. House, 1891.

---. Samantha among the Brethren. Philadelphia, PA.: H.J. Smith, 1891.

---. My Wayward Pardner, or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1891.

Alger, Horatio, and Marietta Holley. Ralph Raymond's Heir : A Novel. New York: F.M. Lupton Pub. Co., 1892.

Holley, Marietta. Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip, and Other Sketches. New York: Federal Book Co., 1892.

Holley, Marietta, and F.M. Lupton Publishing Company. Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip, and Other Sketches. Bijou Series ; No. 56. New York: The F. M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1892.

Holley, Marietta, and E. W. Kemble. Samantha on the Race Problem. Minneapolis, Minn.: T.C. McClure & co., 1892.---. Samantha among the Brethren. microform. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1892.

---. Samantha on the Race Problem. microform. Dodd Mead & Company, New York,, 1892.

---. Samantha on the Race Problem. Chicago,: National Publishing Company, 1892.

---. Miss Jones' Quilting. New York,: International Book Co., 1892.

---. Samantha at the World's Fair. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York, 1893.

---. The Widder Doodle's Love Affair, and Other Stories. The People's Hand Book Series, No. 23. New York,: F.M. Lupton, 1893.

---. Samantha at the World's Fair. New York etc.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1893.

Holley, Marietta, and E. W. Kemble. Samantha among the Colored Folks. "My Ideas on the Race Problem,". New York,: Dodd Mead and Company, 1894.

---. Samantha at Saratoga, or, "Racin' after Fashion". Philadelphia: Hubbard Pub. Co., 1895.

---. Josiah's Alarm; and, Abel Perry's Funeral. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1895.

---. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. And P.I. : Samantha at the Centennial. Designed as a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah. And to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1895.

---. Sweet Cicely : Or, Josiah Allen as a Politician. 13th ed. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1895.

---. Samantha in Europe. N.Y.,: Funk, 1895.

---. Josiah's Alarm, and Abel Perry's Funeral. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1895.

Holley, Marietta, C. De Grimm, and Sample Copy Collection. Samantha in Europe. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1896.

---. Samantha in Europe. New York etc.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1896.

Holley, Marietta, et al. Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1904.

Holley, Marietta. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife. G.W. Dillingham company, New York, 1905.

---. Samantha Vs. Josiah: Being the Story of a Borrowed Automobile and What Came of It. Funk & Wagnall's, New York, 1906.

Holley, Marietta, Ch Grünwald, and G.W. Dillingham Company. Samantha on Children's Rights. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1909.

Holley, Marietta. Josiah's Secret; a Play in Three Acts. Watertown, N.Y.,: Marietta Holley, 1910.

---. Who Was to Blame? Evanston, Ill.: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1910.

California Equal Suffrage Association., and Marietta Holley. An Allegory on Women's Rights. microform. California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco,, 1911.

---. Samantha Versus Josiah : Discussions of the Natural and the Supernatural. 2d ed. New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911.

Holley, Marietta, Christian Herald Association., and Plimpton Press. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands. New York: The Christian Herald Bible House, 1911.

Holley, Marietta. Samantha on the Woman Question. New York, Chicago etc.: Fleming H. Revell company, 1913.

---. Josiah Allen on the Woman Question. New York ; Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1914.

---. Samantha on the Race Problem. Upper Saddle River, N.J.,: Literature House, 1969.

---. Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip, and Other Sketches. St. Clair Shores, Mich.,: Scholarly Press, 1971.

Secondary Bibliography

Bomarito, Jessica, Jeffrey W. Hunter, and Amy Hudock. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit, MI : Thomson Gale, 2004.

Curry, Jane. Marietta Holley. Twayne's United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Epp, Michael H. "The Traffic in Affect: Marietta Holley, Suffrage, and Late- Nineteenth-Century Popular Humor." Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Américaines 36.1 (2006): 94-115.

Graulich, Melody. "'Wimmen Is My Theme, and Also Josiah': The Forgotten Humour of Marietta Holley." American Transcendental Quarterly 47-48 (1980): 187-98.

Gwathmey, Gwendolyn B. "'Who Will Read the Book, Samantha?': Marietta Holley and the 19th Century Reading Public." Studies in American Humor 3.1 (1994): 28-50.

Morris, Linda Ann Finton. "Women Vernacular Humorists in Nineteenth-Century America: Ann Stephens, Frances Whitcher, and Marietta Holley." 1979.

Ross, Cheri L. "Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Humor: Marietta Holley's 'Samantha Novels'." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 22.2 (1989): 12-25.

Ross, Cheri Louise Graves. "Transforming Fictional Genres: Five Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Novelists." Purdue U, 1991.

Sloane, David E. E. "Marietta Holley: 'Josiah Allen's Wife'." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 8 (1975): 279-80.

Toth, Emily. "A Laughter of Their Own: Women's Humor in the United States." Critical Essays on American Humor. Ed. William Bedford --Turner Clark, W. Craig. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston: Hall, 1984. 199-215.

Walker, Nancy A. "Sut and His Sisters: Vernacular Humor and Genteel Culture." Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris. Ed. James E. -Caron, M. Thomas-Inge . Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1996. 261-71.

Williams, Patricia. "The Crackerbox Philosopher as Feminist: The Novels of Marietta Holley." American Humor: An Interdisciplinary Newsletter 7.1 (1980): 16-21.

Winter, Kate. "Snow and Roses: The Life of Marietta Holley." 1983.

Winter, Kate H. "Marietta Holley, 'Josiah Allen's Wife' (1836-1926)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2.1 (1985): 3-5.

---. "Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. (ed. and preface)--Nelson Knight, Emmanuel S. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 224-30.

 


 

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