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The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers / edited with an introduction by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; general editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr

"Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy ...
NPR

A rare collection of American literature will be auctioned off at Christie's

Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature. As a kid growing up in Vermont, ...
insider.si.edu

Periodical literature in nineteenth-century America / edited by Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith

Introduction : Periodical literature in social and historical context / Susan Belasco Smith and Kenneth M. Price -- From Dial essay to New York book : the making of Woman in the nineteenth century / ...
The Harvard Crimson

Remember the Ladies: Seven Depictions of the 19th Century and the Women Who Wrote Them

As the 19th century dawned, women took advantage of the novel to scrutinize the societies that considered them second class citizens.
southcoasttoday

The most photographed American of the 19th century had New Bedford ties. Can you guess who?

NEW BEDFORD — Frederick Douglass is called a social reformer, abolitionist, writer, statesman and now the most photographed American of the 19th century. According to the American Writers Museum, his ...
Robb Report

A Rare Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature Could Fetch up to $5 Million at Auction

It’s a great time to be a lover (and collector) of important American literature. Christie’s will auction off a stunning collection of rare printed books and manuscripts belonging to Bruce M. Lisman ...
The Atlantic

The Nineteenth-Century American

NOTHING in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American in the nineteenth century knew it. Nowhere else on the globe had nature been at once so rich and so generous, and her riches ...
The New Yorker

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.
The Atlantic

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century ...

RECURRING to the notice which we (editors pass, but the editorial pronoun endures) made of Mr. Allibone’s first volume when it appeared some eleven years ago, we find that we can say little of his ...
Forbes

19th-Century ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ Brought To Life At Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...