SAMANTHA "RASTLES" THE WOMAN QUESTION

       SELECTED SOURCES FOR FURTHER READING ON MARIETTA HOLLEY
                      AND WOMEN AND HUMOR

Marietta Holley's Works:

Around the World With Josiah Allen's Wife. G.W. Dillingham, 
     1905. Originally published 1899.
"How I Wrote My First Book," Harper's Bazaar, Sept., 1911.
Josiah Alarm and Abel Perry's Funeral. J.B. Lippincott, 1895.
Josiah Allen on the Woman Question. Fleming H. Revell, 1914.
Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I. or Samantha at the 
     Centennial. American Publishing, 1884.
The Lament of the Mormon Wife. American Publishing, 1880.
Miss Jones' Quilting. J.S. Ogilvie, 1887.
Miss Richards' Boy. American Publishing, 1883.
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's. American Publishing, 1873.
My Wayward Pardner or Trials with Josiah Allen. American 
     Publishing, 1881.
Poems. Funk & Wagnalls, 1887.
Samantha Among the Brethren. Funk & Wagnalls, 1890.
Samantha at Coney Island and A Thousand Other Islands. Christian
     Herald, 1911.
Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition. G.W. Dillingham, 1904.
Samantha at Saratoga. Hubbard Brothers, 1887.
Samantha at the World's Fair. Funk & Wagnalls, 1893.
Samantha in Europe. Funk & Wagnalls, 1896.
Samantha on the Race Problem. J.C. McClure, 1892. Also published 
     as Samantha Among the Colored Folks, Dodd, Mead, 1894.
Samantha on Children's Rights. G.W. Dillingham, 1909.
Samantha on the Woman Question. Fleming H. Revell, 1913.
Samantha Vs. Josiah. Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.
The Story of My Life.  Watertwown, N.Y.: Times Publishing, 1931.
Sweet Cicely. Funk & Wagnalls, 1885.
Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip, and Other Sketches.  F.M. Lupton, 1893.

About Marietta Holley:

Armitage, Shelley. "Marietta Holley: The Humorist as 
     Propagandist," Rocky Mountain Review, 34:4 (Fall, 1980),
     193-201.

Blair, Walter.  Horse Sense in American Humor. University of 
     Chicago Press, 1942.

Blyley, Katherine Gillette. "Marietta Holley." Ph.D. 
     dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1936.

Curry, Jane, editor. Samantha Rastles the Woman Question.
     Anthology of selections from Holley's work. Audiotape by 
     same name with selections performed by Jane Curry.
     University of Illinois Press, 1983. 

Curry, Jane. Marietta Holley. Twayne Publishers, United States 
     Authors Series, 1996.

Morris, Linda. Women Vernacular Humorists in Nineteenth-Century
     America: Ann Stephens, Frances Whitcher, and Marietta 
     Holley. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988.

Winter, Kate H. Marietta Holley: Life with Josiah Allen's Wife. 
     Syracuse University Press, 1984.

Other Works on Women and Humor:

Barreca, Regina, editor. Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and 
     Comedy. Gordon and Breach, 1988. They Used to Call Me Snow 
     White...But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor.
     Penguin Books, 1991.

Beatts, Ann, Judith Jacklin and Deanne Stillman.  Titters 101.
     Perigree Books, 1984.

Dance, Daryl Cumber, editor. Honey, Hush! An Anthology of 
     African American Women's Humor.  W.W. Norton, 1998.

Kaufman, Gloria and Mary Kay Blakely, editors. Pulling Our Own 
     Strings: Feminist Humor & Satire. Indiana Univ. Press,1980.

Morris, Linda. Editor, American Women Humorists: Critical 
     Essays. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 

Morris, Linda.  Women's Humor in the Age of Gentility: The Life 
     and Work of Frances Miriam	Whitcher. Syracuse University 
     Press, 1992.

Sochen, June, editor. Women's Comic Visions. Wayne State 
     University Press, 1991.

Toth, Emily. "A Laughter of Their Own: Women's Humor in the 
     United States," in Wm. Clark and W. Craig Turner, eds.
     Critical Essays on American Humor. G.K. Hall & Co, 1984.

Walker, Nancy.  A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American
     Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Walker, Nancy and Zita Dresner, ed. Redressing the Balance: 
     American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 
     1980s. University Press of Mississippi, 1988.