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Marietta Holley
(1836 - 1926)
(Also wrote under the pseudonym Jemymah) American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and autobiographer.
Marietta Holley: Introduction
Marietta Holley: Princ...
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Marietta Holley used the conventional mother-wit, dialect comic style common in the nineteenth century to fashion a folksy, rustic philosopher named Samantha Smith Allen, who, according to one critic,...
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In the following essay, Graulich urges renewed critical and popular attention to Holley's fiction, in particular her first novel, My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's.
According to a 1905 art...
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In the following essay, Armitage analyzes Holley's use of humor, asserting that it exposes and challenges women's ideas about themselves.
Walter Blair was quite right in calling Marietta...
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In the following essay, Curry discusses the feminist nature of Holley's novels.
A writer for The Critic of January, 1905, said of Marietta Holley: “As ‘Josiah Allen's Wife,...
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In the following essay, Winter provides a stylistic overview of Holley's work.
She was called the Female Mark Twain, inheritor of the male tradition of the literary comedians—Mark Twain,...
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In the following essay, Ross places Holley's fiction within the context of nineteenth-century American humor, and examines her work in relation to current feminist humor theory.
Nineteenth-cent...
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In the following essay from her book-length study on Holley's work, Curry discusses the defining characteristics of Holley's first novel.
In her first published book, My Opinions and Bet...
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In the following essay, Templin traces the similarities between the work of Holley and of Mark Twain, and outlines the reasons for their disparate literary reputations.
Marietta Holley (1836-1926) and...
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Holley, Marietta
Marietta Holley
Critical Essay by Melody Graulich
