Preliminary Bibliography

  

Keywords*: 

  Rebecca Reed, captivity, nun, convent, convent riot, anti-Catholicism, Puritan women

*See previous blog post for a detailed listing of subject headings

Preliminary Bibliography

Bisson, Wilfred Joseph. "Some Conditions for Collective Violence: The Charlestown Convent Riot of 1834." 1974. America: History and Life. Web. 20 September 2010.

Blair, Jennifer. "The Knowledge of 'Sex' and the Lattice of the Confessional: The Nun's Tales and Early North American Popular Discourse." ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. Ed. Carole Gerson. Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 2005. 173-210. America: History and Life. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

Cohen, Daniel A. "Miss Reed and the Superiors: The Contradictions of Convent Life in Antebellum America." Journal of Social History 30.1 (1996): 149. America:  History and Life. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.

---. "Passing the Torch." Journal of the Early Republic 24.4 (2004): 527-86. America: History and Life. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.

"Destroyed Convent, The." United States Catholic Miscellany (1822-1835) 14.46 (1835): 362. Web.

Fessenden, Tracy. "The Convent, the Brothel, and the Protestant Woman's Sphere." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 25.2 (2000): 451. JSTOR. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

Frink, Sandra. "Women, the Family, and the Fate of the Nation in American Anti-Catholic Narratives, 1830-1860." Journal of the History of Sexuality 18.2 (2009): 237-64. America: History and Life. Web. 23 Sept. 2010.

Griffin, Susan M. "Awful Disclosures: Women's Evidence in the Escaped Nun's Tale." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111.1 (1996): 93-107. JSTOR. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

Hollingsworth, Gerelyn. Ex-Nuns: Women Who Have Left the Convent. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1985. Print.

Kenneally, James J. "The Burning of the Ursuline Convent: A Different View." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 90.1 (1979): 15-22. America: History and Life. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

"Libellous! Libellous!!" Zion's Herald (1823-1841) 6.13 (1835): 50. American Periodicals. Web. 11 Sept. 2010.

McCarthy, Maureen A. "The Rescue of True Womanhood: Convents and Anti-Catholicism in 1830s America." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 57.11 (1997): 4899. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 21 Sept. 2010.

Morgan, Michelle. "‘We've Spoiled Your Prison for You’: Gender & Anti-Catholicism in Early 19th-Century Convent Captivity Narratives." New England Journal of History 65.1 (2008): 56-78. America: History and Life. Web. 19 Sept. 2010.

"Obituary." The Religious Intelligencer ...Containing the Principal Transactions of the Various Bible and Missionary Societies, with Particular Accounts of Revivals of Religion (1816-1837) 6.44 (1822): 703. American Periodicals. Web. 11 Sept. 2010.

Reed, Rebecca Theresa b. ca, Maria d. Monk, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz. Veil of Fear: Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales by Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk. West Lafayette, Ind.: NotaBell Books, 1999.  Print.

Regan, John J. "Runaway Nuns, Runaway Bestsellers: Representations of Gender and Class in Antebellum Convent Captivity Narratives and Fictions." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.9 (2000): 3366. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan. "'A Severe and Proud Dame She Was': Weetamoo and the Mother Superior as Female Antagonists in Captivity Narratives by Mary Rowlandson and Rebecca Reed." Literary Calvinism and Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997. 71-99. MLA International Bibliography. Web.  23 September 2010.

Shoemaker, Richard H., et al. A Checklist of American Imprints. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1964. Print.

"Six Months in a Convent; Extracts." Christian Secretary (1822-1889) 14.12 (1835): 47. American Periodicals. Web. 11 Sept. 2010.

"Six Months in a Covent." Episcopal Recorder (1831-1851) 13.2 (1835): 7. American Periodicals. Web. 11 Sept. 2010.

Taves, Ann. "Self and God in the Early Published Memoirs of New England Women." American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Ed. Margo Culley. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1992. 57-74. MLA International Bibliography. Web.  20 Sept. 2010.