BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources

Drama

Glaspell, Susan. Trifles . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Trifles is a play based
upon the short story A Jury of Her Peers. The play Trifles online

Fiction on Quilts

Alcott, Louisa May. Patty's Patchwork. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag . Boston: Roberts Brothers,1889.
general information on Louisa May Alcott

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. The Bedquilt. Women and Fiction 2: Short Stories by and about Women . Ed. Susan Cahill. New York: New American, 1978. 35-43.
general information on Dorothy C. Fisher

Freeman, Mary Wilkins. A Quilting Party in Our Village. (1898). The people of our neighborhood. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898.
online text of short story

Glaspell, Susan. A Jury of Her Peers. (1917). The best American short stories of the century . John Updike, Ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Jury of Her Peers online

Hall, Eliza Calvert. Aunt Jane of Kentucky . Boston: Little, 1907.
excerpts of the text

Macheski, Cecilia, Ed. Quilt Stories . Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1994.
book review

Mason, Bobbie Ann. Love Life. (1984). Love Life: Stories . Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Call Number: PS 3563 .A7877 L68 1989

McPherson, Sandra. The God of Indeterminacy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.
interview with SPARK
look for poems and quilts on this page

Morrison, Toni. Beloved . New York: Penguin Group, 1988.
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1988b

Otto, Whitney. How to Make an American Quilt . New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.
interview with Otto

Stephens, Ann S. The Quilting Party (1850) ?

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the Lowly . Ann Douglas, Ed. New York: Penguin Group, 1986.
online text

---. The Minister's Wooing, Hartford: Stowe-Day Foundation, 1990.
online text

Toomer, Jean. Cane . New York: Liveright, 1993. (There is also a Norton Critical edition which can be helpful).
online biography

Walker, Alice. Everyday Use. Ed. Barbara T. Christian. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994.
online text

---. The Color Purple . New York: Washington Square Press, 1982. A reprint edition is available through Pocket Books.
pocket books site

Film on Gee's Bend and on Quilters

From Fields of Promise , Produced, written and directed by John DiJulio, Bruce Kuertin, and
M.G. Trend, 1993, Media Production Group, AU, web site

Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth Century Women and Their Quilts . Producer Pat Ferrero and Julie Silber. Ferrero Films, 1987. Videocassette. (This is available at the RBD library). web site

How to Make an American Quilt . Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou,, Alfrey Woodard, and Anne Bancroft. Universal Studios, 1995.

The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Dirs. Vanessa Vadim and Matt Arnett. Tinwood Media, 2001

Images: Quilters and Quilts

Beardsley, John et al. The Quilts of Gee's Bend . Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.

---. Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts . Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.
tinwood web site

Freeman, Roland. A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996.
summary

Primary Literature on Collecting, Consumption, or Museum Culture

Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess, in The Norton Anthology of World Literature . Volume II, NY: W.W. Norton &Co., 1995.
online text

Byatt, A.S. Possession . New York: Random House, 1990.

Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn, in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces . Maynard Mack, ed. Volume II. NY: W.W. Norton, & Co., 1995.
online text

Mukherjee, Bharati, The Holder of the World . NY: Ballantine Books, 1993.
biography

Walker, Alice. Ninety Fifty-Five in You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
Call Number: PS 3573 .A425 Y6

---. Interview in Roland Freeman, A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996.
Call Number: TT 835 .F744 1996

Poetry

Clifton, Lucille. Quilting: Poems, 1987-1990 . Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1991.
Call Number: PS 3553 .L45 Q55 1991 biographical information

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Quilting. The Collected Poetry . Joanne M. Braxton, editor.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993.
digital text collection

Giovanni, Nikki. Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: Poems and not quite poems . New York: William Morrow, 2002.
Giovanni's commercial web site

Levin, Larry. The Quilt. The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets . Eds. David Smith and David Bottoms. New York: Quill, 1985. 398-399.
Call Number: PS 615 .M64 1985

Smith, Dave. On a Quilt in the Bennington College Library. Cuba Night . New York: Morrow, 1990. 75-76.
biographical information

Smock, Frederick, The American Voice Anthology of Poetry . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998. (several poems on textile/text and the AIDS quilt)
book information

Oral Histories, Personal Essays, and Interviews

Bell-Scott, Patricia, et al. Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters . Boston: Beacon
Press, 1991.

Callahan, Nancy. The Freedom Quilting Bee . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
web site on the quilting bee

Farley, Harriet, The Patchwork Quilt, in Benita Eisler, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1856) . NY: Lippincott, 1977. (First Published in the Lowell Offering 5 (1845): 201-203
Call Number: HD6073.T42 U54

Freeman, Roland. Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996.
summary

Moehringer, J. R. Crossing Over, Photos by Clarence Williams,
online text

Walker, Alice. Interview. In Roland Freeman, A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996, 149-155.

Warner, Pecolia, Pecolia Warner, oral history collected by William Ferris, in Ferris, William, ed. Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts , Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. 1983.
web site on Ferris
one of Warner's quilts





quilts of gee's bend catalog auburn studies the quilts original work quilt styles history and geography more quilts maps (.pdf) freedom quilting bee bibliography archival sources links				BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Drama Glaspell, Susan. Trifles . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Trifles is a play based upon the short story A Jury of Her Peers. The play Trifles online Fiction on Quilts Alcott, Louisa May. Patty's Patchwork. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag . Boston: Roberts Brothers,1889. general information on Louisa May Alcott Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. The Bedquilt. Women and Fiction 2: Short Stories by and about Women . Ed. Susan Cahill. New York: New American, 1978. 35-43. general information on Dorothy C. Fisher Freeman, Mary Wilkins. A Quilting Party in Our Village. (1898). The people of our neighborhood. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. online text of short story Glaspell, Susan. A Jury of Her Peers. (1917). The best American short stories of the century . John Updike, Ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Jury of Her Peers online Hall, Eliza Calvert. Aunt Jane of Kentucky . Boston: Little, 1907. excerpts of the text Macheski, Cecilia, Ed. Quilt Stories . Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1994. book review Mason, Bobbie Ann. Love Life. (1984). Love Life: Stories . Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Call Number: PS 3563 .A7877 L68 1989 McPherson, Sandra. The God of Indeterminacy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. interview with SPARK look for poems and quilts on this page Morrison, Toni. Beloved . New York: Penguin Group, 1988. Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1988b Otto, Whitney. How to Make an American Quilt . New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. interview with Otto Stephens, Ann S. The Quilting Party (1850) ? Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the Lowly . Ann Douglas, Ed. New York: Penguin Group, 1986. online text ---. The Minister's Wooing, Hartford: Stowe-Day Foundation, 1990. online text Toomer, Jean. Cane . New York: Liveright, 1993. (There is also a Norton Critical edition which can be helpful). online biography Walker, Alice. Everyday Use. Ed. Barbara T. Christian. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994. online text ---. The Color Purple . New York: Washington Square Press, 1982. A reprint edition is available through Pocket Books. pocket books site Film on Gee's Bend and on Quilters From Fields of Promise , Produced, written and directed by John DiJulio, Bruce Kuertin, and M.G. Trend, 1993, Media Production Group, AU, web site Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth Century Women and Their Quilts . Producer Pat Ferrero and Julie Silber. Ferrero Films, 1987. Videocassette. (This is available at the RBD library). web site How to Make an American Quilt . Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou,, Alfrey Woodard, and Anne Bancroft. Universal Studios, 1995. The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Dirs. Vanessa Vadim and Matt Arnett. Tinwood Media, 2001 Images: Quilters and Quilts Beardsley, John et al. The Quilts of Gee's Bend . Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002. ---. Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts . Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002. tinwood web site Freeman, Roland. A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. summary Primary Literature on Collecting, Consumption, or Museum Culture Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess, in The Norton Anthology of World Literature . Volume II, NY: W.W. Norton &Co., 1995. online text Byatt, A.S. Possession . New York: Random House, 1990. Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn, in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces . Maynard Mack, ed. Volume II. NY: W.W. Norton, & Co., 1995. online text Mukherjee, Bharati, The Holder of the World . NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. biography Walker, Alice. Ninety Fifty-Five in You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Call Number: PS 3573 .A425 Y6 ---. Interview in Roland Freeman, A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. Call Number: TT 835 .F744 1996 Poetry Clifton, Lucille. Quilting: Poems, 1987-1990 . Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1991. Call Number: PS 3553 .L45 Q55 1991 biographical information Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Quilting. The Collected Poetry . Joanne M. Braxton, editor.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993. digital text collection Giovanni, Nikki. Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: Poems and not quite poems . New York: William Morrow, 2002. Giovanni's commercial web site Levin, Larry. The Quilt. The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets . Eds. David Smith and David Bottoms. New York: Quill, 1985. 398-399. Call Number: PS 615 .M64 1985 Smith, Dave. On a Quilt in the Bennington College Library. Cuba Night . New York: Morrow, 1990. 75-76. biographical information Smock, Frederick, The American Voice Anthology of Poetry . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998. (several poems on textile/text and the AIDS quilt) book information Oral Histories, Personal Essays, and Interviews Bell-Scott, Patricia, et al. Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters . Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Callahan, Nancy. The Freedom Quilting Bee . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987. web site on the quilting bee Farley, Harriet, The Patchwork Quilt, in Benita Eisler, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1856) . NY: Lippincott, 1977. (First Published in the Lowell Offering 5 (1845): 201-203 Call Number: HD6073.T42 U54 Freeman, Roland. Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. summary Moehringer, J. R. Crossing Over, Photos by Clarence Williams, online text Walker, Alice. Interview. In Roland Freeman, A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories . Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996, 149-155. Warner, Pecolia, Pecolia Warner, oral history collected by William Ferris, in Ferris, William, ed. Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts , Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. 1983. web site on Ferris one of Warner's quilts

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