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A school teacher, editor, writer, and a literary critic, Kirkland was an early realist living during the high point of American romanticism. Transported to the frontier, she has realistically portrayed the life, manners, and hardships of the frontier experience in A New Home - Who'll Follow? and Forest Life.
A New Home - Who'll Follow?, 1839 (published under the psuedonym Mary Clavers); Forest Life, 1842; Western Clearings, 1845; The Evening Book, 1852; A Book for the Home Circle, 1853.
Selected Bibliography 1980-Present
Kimbel, Bobby E., and William E. Grant. eds. American Short-Story Writers before 1880. Detroit: Gale, 1988.
Knight, Denise D. Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.
Knight, Denise D., and Emmanuel S. Nelson. eds. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Roberson, Susan L. ed. Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998.
Tchudi, Stephen. ed. Community in the American West. Reno: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1999.
Wright, Will, and Steven Kaplan. eds. The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and Society. Pueblo: University of Southern Colorado, 1996.
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