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BIBLIOGRAPHY

A list of the resources cited on this website.
Primary sources

 

The American Booksellers Guide. New York: American News Co., 1871. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102657159

 

Banner of Progress (San Francisco, California), 1867-1868. The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP). http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/banner_of_progress/.

 

Carrier Dove (San Francisco, California), 1883-1893. The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP), http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/carrier_dove/.

 

Common Sense (San Francisco, California), 1874-1875. The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP). http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/common_sense/

 

Davis, Andrew Jackson. The Children’s Progressive Lyceum: A manual, with directions for the organization and management for Sunday schools, adapted to the bodies and minds of the young. Boston: Colby & Rich, 1893. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100438718

 

Likins, Mrs. J. W. Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California: Including My Trip From New York to San Francisco via Nicaragua. San Francisco: Women’s Union Book and Job Printing Office, 1874. Open Library, Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/sixyearsexperien00liki/page/n7/mode/2up.

 

The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California), 1895-1913. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.

 

Schlesinger, Julia. Workers in the Vineyard: A Review of the Progress of Spiritualism, Biographical Sketches, Lectures, Essays and Poems. San Francisco, California, 1896. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100128052

 

Thorndyke, Mrs. E. P. Astrea, or Goddess of Justice (San Francisco: Amanda M. Slocum, 1881), HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007092308

 

Tuttle, Hudson and James M. Peebles. The year-book of spiritualism for 1871; presenting the status of spiritualism for the current year throughout the world; philosophical, scientific, and religious essays, review of its literature; history of American associations; state and local societies; progressive lyceums; lecturers; mediums; and other matters relating to the momentous subject. Boston: William White and Company, 1871. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006854120

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Bell, Maureen. “Women Writing and Women Written.” In The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols., ed. by John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie, assistant ed. by Maureen Bell. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Quoted in ‘Grossly Material Things’: Women and Book Production In Early Modern England, by Helen Smith, 3-4. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

 

Braude, Ann. “News from the Spirit World: A Checklist of American Spiritualist Periodicals, 1847-1900.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 99, no. 2 (October 1989): 399–462. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.simmons.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=44539462&site=eds-live&scope=site.

 

———. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. 2nd ed. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001.

 

Campbell, Marne L.. Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central. 

 

Casper, Scott E., Groves, Jeffrey D., Nissenbaum, Stephen W., Winship, Michael, and Hall, David D., eds. A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: the Industrial Book, 1840-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central.

 

Clark, Mary Ann. “Spirit Is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches.” In Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: ‘There Is a Mystery’…., ed. by Stephen Finley, Margarita Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr., 86-101. Leiden: BRILL, 2014. Proquest Ebook Central.

 

Danky, James P., and Wiegand, Wayne A., eds. Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

 

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Ellis, R. J. and Henry Louis Gates. “‘Grievances at the Treatment She Received’: Harriet E. Wilson's Spiritualist Career in Boston, 1868—1900.” American Literary History 24, no. 2 (2012): 234-64.

 

Forbes, Erin E. “Do Black Ghosts Matter?: Harriet Jacobs’ Spiritualism.” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 62, no. 3 (2016): 443–79.

 

Frankiel, Sandra Sizer. California's Spiritual Frontiers: Religious Alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. UC Press E-Books Collection. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1z09n7fq/.

 

Gardner, Eric. “Early African American Print Culture and the American West.” In Early African American Print Culture, ed. by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein, 75-89. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central.

 

———. Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central.

 

Hawley, E. Haven. “William Berry: Publisher, Scoundrel, and Spiritualist.” Printing History 22 (Summer 2017): 30–52.

 

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Levenson, Robert. Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1994.

 

Musmann, Victoria Kline. “Women and the founding of social libraries in California, 1859-1910.” PhD diss. University of Southern California, 1982. USC Digital Library. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll36/id/200110/rec/1

 

Natale, Simone. Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of the Modern Media Culture. Penn State University Press, 2016. Hoopla ebook.

 

Parratt, Edna Martin. “Women Printers and Engravers in San Francisco.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations 56 (1952): 42-43. New York: New York Public Library. Hathitrust Digital Library, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036736810&view=1up&seq=57&q1=%22Women%20Printers%20and%20Engravers%20in%20San%20Francisco%22.

 

Roman, Dianne. “Women at the Crossroads, Women at the Forefront, American Women in Letterpress Printing In the Nineteenth Century.” PhD diss. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4595/. (Available in December 2021)

 

Smith, Helen. “Introduction.” In ’Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production In Early Modern England, 1-15. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

 

Sword, Helen. "Necrobibliography: Books in the Spirit World." Modern Language Quarterly 60, no. 1 (1999). Gale Academic OneFile.

 

Walkup, Kathleen. “Women in Printing.” In Six Years Experience As a Book Agent in California: Including My Trip From New York to San Francisco Via Nicaragua, by Mrs. J. W. Likins, xxi-xxii. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992.

 

Washington, Margaret. Sojourner Truth’s America. University of Illinois Press, 2009.

 

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1935. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/woolf_aroom/page/n1/mode/2up

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