Links to Oakes Smith related sources on the Web

• The Sinless Child and Other Poems 1843 see also this link
  The FULL TEXT of The Sinless Child and Other Poems(1843), ed. John Keese, produced as part of the "Making of America" collection, University of Michigan
• "The Sinless Child" (1842)
  This link, from Stephen Railton's page, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture at the University of Virginia acknowledges "Eva" from Oakes Smith's "The Sinless Child" as a model for Stowe's Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Either Railton or Chadwick Healey's transcription (the source of Railton's link) misdates the poem, which was originally printed in The Southern Literary Messenger in 1842.
• Christine Ladd-Franklin by Samantha Ragsdale
  This biography of Christine Ladd Franklin (1847-1930) indicates Oakes Smith's influence on the next generation of feminist thinkers:
  Even as a toddler, Christine was attending women's rights lectures with her mother, such as one given by Elizabeth Oakes Smith. In a letter to her sister, Riar, Augusta once wrote of Elizabeth Oakes Smith's lecture, saying "women belonged not only in the pulpit, a place for which they were peculiarly suited, but also every place where a man should be

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  Biography and Criticism

  • Richards, Eliza. "Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Unspeakable Eloquence" in Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle (Cambridge UP, 2004)

   

  • Margrave, Veronica.  "Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) in Knight, Denise D. (ed. and preface) Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

  • Rose, Jane E.. "Expanding Woman's Sphere, Dismantling Class, and Building Community: The Feminism of Elizabeth Oakes Smith." CLA Journal. 45 (2): 207-30. 2001 Dec.

  • Woidat, Caroline. "Puritan Daughters and 'Wild' Indians: Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Narratives of Domestic Captivity." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (Spring 2001): 21-34.

  • Belasco-Smith, Susan. "Elizabeth Oakes Smith" Dictionary of Literary Biography 235: American Literary Renaissance in New England, 4th Series. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 2000.

  • Kete, Mary Louise. "Gender Valences of Transcendentalism: The Pursuit of Idealism in Elizabeth Oakes-Smith's 'The Sinless Child.'" Separate Spheres No More. Ed, Monika Elbert. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 2000.

  • Scherman, Timothy H.. "Elizabeth Oakes Smith." Dictionary of Literary Biography 239: American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1870. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 2000. 222-30.

  • Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999. (chapter on American poets has a substantial section on EOS)

  • Prins, Yopie and Virginia Jackson. "Lyrical Studies." Victorian Literature and Culture 27.2 (1999):521-30.

   

  • Kirkland, Leigh.  "Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 1806-1893,"  in Knight, Denise D. (ed. and preface); Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed.) Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 1997. 324-30.

   

  • Kirkland, Leigh.  "A Human Life: Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith" (a critical edition).  Diss.  Georgia State University, 1994.

  • Nickels, Cameron and Timothy H. Scherman. "Elizabeth Oakes Smith: The Puritan as Feminist." de conscience: aspects du feminisme americain (1848-1875). Eds. Susan Goodman and Daniel Royot. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1994).

  • Walker, Cheryl, ed. American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992.

  • ----. The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982.

  • Wiltenburg, Joy. "Excerpts from the Diary of Elizabeth Oakes Smith." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1984) 9/3: 534-48.

   

  • Geissler, Kathleen M..  "Literacy and Literary Ambition," in "Needles and Pens: The Social Meaning of Women's Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America," Diss.  1987.

  • Richards, Wynola L..  "A Review of the Life and Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith" Diss.  Ball State University, 1981.

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