AN ELLA WHEELER WILCOX BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Richard A. Edwards, c. 1997-1999.
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List of Biographical material in alphabetical order by author and title.
List of Biographical material in order of year published.
Quotations and/or the complete image and/or full text of some of the works listed marked with this image  are avaiable.

BIOGRAPHY & STUDIES

"About Women"
Akron City Times 10 Aug. 1887: 1.
Quotation available.

Adelman, Joseph
Famous women : an outline of feminine achievement through the ages with life stories of five hundred noted women.
New York : Pictorial Review, c1928.
Quotation available.

Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature.
New York: John B. Alden, 1885-1890.
v.20

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors.
By John Foster Kirk.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1891.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1965.

Almanac of Famous People.
6th ed.
Gale Research, 1998.

American Authors: 1600-1900 .
A biographical dictionary of American literature.
Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft.
New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1938.
Quotation available.

American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day.
Third revised edition.
By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.

American Biographies.
By Wheeler Preston.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1974.

The American Literary Yearbook. A biographical and bibliographical dictionary of living North American authors.
Volume 1, 1919.
Edited by Hamilton Traub.
Henning, MN: Paul Traub, 1919.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968.

American National Biography.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 23: 371-372.
Quotation available.

American Women [a revised edition of Woman of the Century]: fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portaits;
a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of american women during the nineteenth century.
Edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.
New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897 [republished by Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1973].
Quotation available.

American Women Playwrights, 1900-1930. A checklist.
Compiled by Frances Diodato Bzowski.
Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, no. 15.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Quotation available.

American women poets of the nineteenth century : an anthology.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1992.
xlvii, 423 p. ; 23 cm.
SERIES: American women writers series
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references. Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) -- Maria Gowen Brooks (1794-1845) -- Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) -- Elizabeth Oakes-Smith (1806-1893) -- Emma Embury (1806-1863) -- Lucretia Davidson (1808-1825) -- Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850) -- Anne Lynch Botta (1815-1891) -- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) -- Alice Cary (1820-1871) -- Maria White Lowell (1821-1853) -- Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) -- Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) -- Frances Harper (1825-1911) -- Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) -- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) -- Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) -- Mary Tucker Lambert (1838-?) -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1839?-1868) -- Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) -- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1850?- 1916) -- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925) -- Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) -- Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) -- Mary Weston Fordham (1862?-?).
ISBN: 0813517907 (cloth) : 0813517915 (pbk.) :
Quotation available.

American Women Writers. A critical reference guide from colonial times to the present.
Edited by Lina Mainiero.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1979-1994.
v. 4, p. 415-417
Quotation available.

Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Edited by james Grant Wilson and John Fiske.
New York: D. Appleton,1887-89.
Quotation available.

Arnavon, Cyrille.
Histoire litteraire des Etats-Unis.
in a review by Alexander Cowie
American Literature, Vol. 25, No. 4. (Jan., 1954), pp. 519-522.p. 520
Quotation available.

The Arena album.
Boston, Arena publishing co., 1893.
16 plates. p.
TOC: Whittier and Tennyson -- Helen H. Gardener -- B. O. Flower -- Helen Campbell --Richard A. Proctor -- M. French-Sheldon -- Rev. Marion D. Shutter -- Helen Gougar -- Hamlin Garland -- Louise Chandler Moulton -- W. D. McCrackan --May Wright Sewall -- James A. Herne -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Mrs. L. C. Pickett -- Will Allen Dromgoole.
Biography -- 19th century -- Portraits.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Portraits.
Note(s): Plates loose in portfolio.
LC: CT217.5; Dewey: 810.99

Articles on Women Writers : Volume 2, 1976-1984: A bibliography.
By Narda Lacey Schwartz.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1986.
Quotation available.

Bain, Robert.
Whitman's & Dickinson's contemporaries; an anthology of their verse.
Southern Ill. University Press, 1996.

Baird, Julian.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
In Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary.
Edward T. James, editor; Janet Wilson James, associate editor; Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
Quotation available.

Period Piece, 1940, HMBallou, Jenny.
Period piece; Ella Wheeler Wilcox and her times.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin company, 1940.
286 p. illus. 21 cm.
"A popular biography based on inadequate materials." E. K. Brown, C. G. in American Literature, Vol. 12, No. 2. (May., 1940), pp. 270.

Ballou, J.
"Poetess of passion."
Saturday Review. Saturday review gallery.
Simon & Schuster, 1959 p. 76-83.

Bax, Emily.
Miss Bax of the Embassy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c.1939.
"From 1902 to 1914, an English girl by the name of Emily Bax took dictation and pounded the typewriter in the American Embassy in London. This is her book. Through its pages pass such figures as Jospeh Choate, Whitlaw Reid and Walter Hines Page, the three ambassadors under whom she served; Theodore Roosevelt, returning from Africa to startle and embarass the State Department and the British Government; Mark Twain, selling a speech he never delivered; Colonel House in the momentous days of 1914; William Jennings Bryan and General Nelson Miles who gave the Embassy staff anxious moments; American women such as Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Alice Paul and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, with ideas of their own...".

Beale, Edgar C.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox : A Phrenograph from a Personal Examination."
by Edgar C. Beale, M.D.
VIM Magazine
1904.
p. 129-133.
Note: "It has a picture of Ella Wheeler Wilcox on cover. She is famous as a reformer, a writer, an optimist,a champion of right living, an earnest advocate of the "new thought", and of all the humane and wholesome sentiments which that term implies. This is a Phreno-physical study of her."

"The Beauty Fads of Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
The Woman Beautiful Magazine (May, 1908)

Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature.
Edition 1, 1991 v1 p1133
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1991 HarperCollins Publishers
Quotation available.

Bernikow, Louise.
The World Split Open : four centuries of women poets in England and America, 1552-1950.
New York: Vintage Books, 1974. p. 220-221.
Quotation available.

The Bibliophile Dictionary. A biographical record of the great authors, with bibliographical notices of their principal works from the beginning of history. Originally published as Volumes 29 and 30 of The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts.
Compiled and arranged by Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, and Caroline Ticknor.
New York: International Bibliophile Society, 1904.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1966.

Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern.
Edited by Charles Dudley Warner.
Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902.
Quotation available.

Biographies of American Women. An annotated bibliography.
By Patricia E. Sweeney.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1990.

Bletzinger, Andrea
Wisconsin Women: A Gifted Heritage.
Edited by Andrea Bletzinger and Anne Short
First Edition
Wisconsin State Division AAUW, 1982.
LIST OF WOMEN COVERED: Rosaline Peck, Clarissa Tracy, Frances Willard, Kate Pier, Lucy Smith Morris, Mother M. Agnex Hazotte, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Belle Case La Follette, Helen Thompson, Mary Spellman, Jessie Jack Hooper, Evangeline Bergstrom, Zona Gale, Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, Ada James, Fay Crow, Emma Duerrwaechter, Elma Spaulding Schuele, Edna Ferber, Marguerite Davis, Rosalie Ganz, Georgia O'Leeffe, Emily Cowles, Peg Bradley, Edith Heider, Clare Bluett Dreyfus, Greta Celia Largo Potter, Edna Frida Pietsch, Glady Mollart, Helen C. White, Bret Luther Griem, Harriet Harmon Dexter, Maurie Applegate Clack, Ruth West, Golda Meir, Maren Christine Petersen, Frances Cline, Bernice Scott, Lois Almon, Della Wendt, Anite Hankwitz Kastner, Ruth de Young Kohler, Hildegarde, Lillian Mackesy, Mabel Mannix Mc Elligott, Marie Sperka, Monica Bainter, Marguerite Henry, Lillian Leenhouts, Dorothy Von Briesen, Sr. Thomasina Fessler, OSF, Hannah Swart, Catherine Cleary, Madame Liane Kuony, Clare Kiepke, Ellen Benson Humleker, Mabel Ruby McClanahan, Margaret Mary Abaravich, Florence Parry Heide, Kathryn Clarenbach, Sr. Remy Revor, Signe Skott Cooper, Isabel Brown, Ruth Clusen, Angeline Thompson, Barbara Thompson, Mary Lou Munts, Sr. Joel Read, Audrey Jane Dernbach, Gene Boyer, Mary Linsmeier, Lorna Balian, Roberta Boorse, Carol Hough Merrick, Audrey Sickinger, Shirley Abrahamson, Ada Deer, Helen Barnhill, Margaret Hawkins, Sarah Harder, Barbara Nichols, Marlene Cummings, Jill Geisler, Ferne Caulker-Bronson, Sheila Young Ochowicz, Susan Shannon Engeleiter, Jill Ann Lieber, Beth Heiden.

Bogan, Louise
Achievement in American Poetry
Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1962 (c1951)
Quotation available.

Bollow, Ludmilla
Poems of Passion : a play in two acts.
Milwaukee, WI: Ludmilla Bollow, [n.d.]
88 p.

Boudreau, Richard. (ed.)
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
The Literary Heritage of Wisconsin.
Volume One.
LaCrosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1986.

"The Bright Side of Literary Life."
Success magazine (Feb. 4, 1899)
An interview with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Image available.

Brinnin, John Malcolm
The Sway of the Grand Saloon : a social history of the North Atlantic.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971.
599 p.
Part Four, Section II, "Ella Wheeler Wilcox and the Street of Shops."

Brown, Neal.
Critical Confessions.
Wausau, WI: The Philosopher Press, 1899.
pp. 171-200

Bryant, William Cullen (ed.)
A New Library Of Poetry And Song.
New York: Fords, Howard And Hulbert, 1895.
Notes: Volume Two Contents include The Poet, Memoir Of William Cullen Bryant,With Engravings And Photographs Throughout, Poetical Works by Eugene Field,Whittier, Tennyson, James Russel Lowell, Walter Scott, Longfellow, Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edmund Gosse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, George Santayana, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Fawcett, Frank L.Stanton, Emma Lazarus, Austin Dobson, Richard Hovey, Sidney Lanier, Arlo Bates, Walt Whitman, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Hood, Julia Ward Howe, Keats, Wordsworth, Bayard Taylor, Jean Ingelow, Byron, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, John Pierpoint, Joaquin Miller and many more.

Handwriting Analysis: The Art and Science of Reading Character by Grapho Analysis.
Bunker, M. N. b. 1892  (Milton Newman),
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1959.
256 p. p., illus., 23 cm.
Notes: "Their own handwriting reveals Bill Tilden, Ellis Parker Butler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and many others."

Handwriting Analysis : The Science of Determining Personality by Graphoanalysis.
Bunker, M. N.
Nelson-Hall Company, c1966, 1967.
New edition.
256 p. ; 9" x 6"
Analysis of handwriting of famous persons such as: Bill Tilden, Ellis Parker Butler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Thomas Dixon Jr., Rabbi Stephen Wise, Norma Shearer, Bette Davis, Winnie Ruth Judd, hazel Goodwin Keeler, Joe E. Brown, W. C. Handy, S. S. Van Dine, Thomas A. Edison, Julia Marlowe, Cruikshank, Rose Pastor Stokes, Paul Wellman, Dr. Frederick Cook, Lord Lytton, Charles Atlas, George F. Jowett, Seigmund Klein, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Hoover, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Frances Cleveland, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Bess Truman, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Edwin Booth, Wendell Phillips, Beatrice Harraden, Fontaine Fox and Toonerville Trolley, Otis Skinner, Emile Coue, Rev. Charles Coughlin, Whittaker Chambers, Andrew Carnegie, the armless Billy Richard, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Somerset Maugham, Cordell Hull, Hon. Frances P. Bolton, Maxwell Parrish, Carrie Nation, Dorothy Dix, Strickland Gillilan, Horace Greeley, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Julia Ward Howe, Victor Herbert, Vidocq, Charles Spurgeon, Dr. Marcus Bach, Edgar Wallace, and many others.

Bunker, M. N.
Handwriting Analysis - The Science of Determining Personality by Graphoanalysis.
Nelson-Hall Co., 1968.
256 p.
Also presents studies of the analysis of handwriting of famous persons such as: Bill Tilden, Ellis Parker Butler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Thomas Dixon Jr., Rabbi Stephen Wise, Norma Shearer, Bette Davis, Winnie Ruth Judd, hazel Goodwin Keeler, Joe E. Brown, W. C. Handy, S. S. Van Dine, Thomas A. Edison, Julia Marlowe, Cruikshank, Rose Pastor Stokes, Paul Wellman, Dr. Frederick Cook, Lord Lytton, Charles Atlas, George F. Jowett, Seigmund Klein, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Hoover, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Frances Cleveland, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Bess Truman, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Edwin Booth, Wendell Phillips, Beatrice Harraden, Fontaine Fox and Toonerville Trolley, Otis Skinner, Emile Coue, Rev. Charles Coughlin, Whittaker Chambers, Andrew Carnegie, the armless Billy Richard, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Somerset Maugham, Cordell Hull, Hon. Frances P. Bolton, Maxwell Parrish, Carrie Nation, Dorothy Dix, Strickland Gillilan, Horace Greeley, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Julia Ward Howe, Victor Herbert, Vidocq, Charles Spurgeon, Dr. Marcus Bach, Edgar Wallace, and many others.

Burke, William Jeremiah.
American authors and books, 1640 to the present day.
New York: Crown, 1962.
Quotation available.

The Burr McIntosh Monthly
April 1906 Vol.X NO 37.
NOTES: Cover design, Maude Adams as Peter Pan. photo by Otto Sarony Co. N. Y.
People of Note: Late King Christian of Denmark-Frederick VIII, New King of Denmark-Clement Amand Fallieres, the New President of France-Rudyard Kipling-Hon. Joseph Cannon, Speaker, House of Representatives-King Alfonso and his fiancee, Princess Ena of Battenberg-Dowager Queen Marguerita; Italy,-Ella Wheeler Wilcox. and many more.

Cady, Edward H.
The American Poets (1800-1900)
by Edward H. Cady.
Scott, Foresman and Company, 1966.
503 pages.
The authors in this collection are: William Cullen Bryant, Timothy Dwight, David Everett, Joel Barlow, Francis Scott Key, Philip Freneau, John Pierpont, Samuel Woodworth, John Neal, Phoebe H. Brown, Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz Greene Halleck, Cement Moore, Edward Coote Pinkney, J.G. C. Brainard, Edgar Allan Poe, George Pope Morris, William Gilmore Simms, Charles Fenno Hoffman, N.P. Willis, Thomas Dunn English, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jones Very, C.P. Cranch, William Ellery Channing, Edmund H. Sears, Phoebe Cary, Bayard Taylor, Elizabeth A. Allen, Francis O. Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Kate P. Osgood, Francis M. Finch, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, John Russel Lowell, Walt Whitman, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, George Henry Boker, Emily Dickinson, W.D. Howells, Sidney LAnier, E.C. Stedman, Phillips Brooks, J.T. Trowbridge, Bret Harte, John Hay, C.G. Leland, J.G. Holland, Charles Warren Stoddard, John Burroughs, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, George Woodberry, Edward Roland Sill, Emma Lazarus, Maurice Thompson, John James Piatt, Joaquin Miller, James Whitcomb Riley, Ewin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, John G. Saxe, Ernest L. Thayer, Charles E. Carryl, Charlotte Stetson, Gelett Burgess, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Oliver Herford, George Santayana, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Lee Frost, Eugene Field, John Bannister Tabb, W.H. Carruth, John Bannister Tabb, W.H. Carruth, Richard Hovey, George Cabot Lodge, Trumbull Stickney, Sam Walter Foss, Joseph I. C. Clarke, Edwin Markham, William Vaughn Moody AND Henry Adams.

The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Quotation available.

Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature.
Steinberg, S.H. and Buchanan-Brown, J. (eds.)
New York, NY: Morrow, 1953, 1973.
Quotation available.

Chambers's biographical dictionary.
Edited by J.O.Thorne.
Rev. Edition.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1969, c1968]
Quotation available.

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day with specimens of their writings.
Volume III: 19th-20th Century.
Edited by David Patrick, revised by J. Liddell Geddie.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1938.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978.

Chapple, J.M.
"Interview."
National Magazine 36 (September 1912): 870-2.
port.

Cheiro.
You and Your Hand : the last word on this fascinating study.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1931.
"The Hand of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the Celebrated American Poetess" p. 274-275
Full text of this chapter is available.

Cherry, S.T. and Cherry, A.J.
Otyognomy or the External Ear as an Index of Character.
[no place]: Cherry, c1900.
Plates of: DANIEL BOONE, GENERAL GRANT , MAj.-GENERAL MAXIMO GOMEZ COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF CUBAN ARMY OF LIBERATION, GEORGE W .CHILDS , ROBERT FULTON, HORACE MANN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

Child, C.W.
"The Hand of Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
In The Occult Review Christmas Number (December 1919)" 341-344.
London: William Rider and Son, Ltd., 1919.
Full text of this article is available.

Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University.
By John Mackay Shaw.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1972, 1976.

Clark, Wilma J.
"The Energizer: Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
In The Levels of Poetry: an exploration of the dichotomy between nineteenth-century popular and elite poetry.
Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1972.

Colbert, Ann
"Philanthropy in the newsroom: Women's editions of newspapers, 1894-1896."
Journalism History Autumn 1996 22(3) p. 90-99.

Current, Richard Nelson
Wisconsin:  A Bicentennial History.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977.
226 p.
"In their leisure moments, citizens of the Badger State turned to variety of homegrown diversions. But whether diverted by the Ringling brother’s circus, the “poetess of passion” Ella Wheeler Wilcox, or the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsinites discovered that their notions about fun and fantasy quickly found their way into the broader marketplace of American culture."

Curtis, Isabel Gordon.
"The Housekeeper at Large : The People She Meets."
Good Housekeeping XXXII(5) (May 1901): 393-395.
Full text of this article is available.

DeFord, Miriam Allen
"Poetess of Passion."
American Mercury 32 (1934), 435-439.

A Dictionary of American Authors.
Fifth edition, revised and enlarged.
By Oscar Fay Adams.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904.
Quotation is available.

Dictionary of American Biography.
New York: Scribner's Sons, c1936
Quotation is available.

Dictionary of American Temperance Biography. From Temperance Reform to Alcohol Research, the 1600s to the 1980s.
By Mark Edward Lender.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Quotation is available.

A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language. From Chaucer to 1940.
Compiled and edited by Robin Myers.
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970.
Quotation is available.

A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950.
Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace.
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968.
Quotation is available.

“Ella Wheeler. A Chat with the Poetess of Passion—Her Inspiration and Favorites.”
The Evening Call [Philadelphia] 2 Jan. 1884: 3. [—Chicago News.]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Cosmopolitan magazine (November 1888)
7 pages, one page has a portrait of Ella.A short biography.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Literary digest (Nov. 22, 1919): [6]
NOTES: From Literary digest, Nov. 22, 1919.

"Ella Wheeler Wilcox Studies the Mormons." (Editorial)
The Latter-day Saints Mellennial Star LXV(25) (June 18, 1903):

Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,© 1998.
Quotation is available.

Ernst, Kathleen.
"Legendary Wisconsin Women."
WISCONSIN WOMAN (March 1989): 43-46.
Illustrated article about Rosaline Peck, Cordelia Harvey, Olympia Brown, Frances Willard, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary
Spellman, Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Golda Meir.

Everybody's Magazine, 2 (January-June 1900)
Notes: Snapshot Interviews: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in several photographs.

Everyman's dictionary of literary biography, English & American.
Browning, David Clayton (ed.)
London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1965.
Quotation is available.

Fairbanks, Carol.
More women in literature : criticism of the seventies.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1979.
Quotation available.

Flower, Sydney
"A Visit to Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
New Thought XI.10 (October 1902) p. 1-3

Gallup, Donald.
"More Letters of American Writers."
Yale University Library Gazette 37 (1962): 30-35.

Gardner, Martin
The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy.
Prometheus, 1995.
255 p.
"Mr. Gardner's final chapter places Christian Science within the context of New Thought, a movement that anticipated all the elements of today's New Age. He focuses on the life of New Thought poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, now forgotten but once our nation's most loved versifier. She was, in Gardner's opinion, the Shirley MacLaine of her time."

Gardner, Martin
"New Thought, Unity, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Hypotheses: Neo-Aristotelian Analysis 5 (Spring 1993): 8-11.

Garrison, Theodosia.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the woman."
Bookman 50 (Jan. 1920): 482-484.

Gay Nineties Cook Book.
Compiled, Written and Done into this book by F. Meredith and August Dietz, Jr.
Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1945.
"Receipts from Books of the 1890s. Celebrities' Favorite Dishes. Wines & Liquors for Beverages, Flavoring, Medicine. Herb Teas, Spring Tonics and Cure-Alls. French Words In Cooking. Parties Balls Calls. Etiquette for Ladies and Gentleman. The Gay Nineties In Rhyme & Story. Profusely Illustrated. News Headlines - 1890-1900"
Includes: Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1855.1919)

Gaylor, Annie Laurie  Editor
Women Without Superstition: "No Gods - No Masters".
Quotation available.

Glover, Audrey
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Rays From The Rose Cross, the Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine (July, 1959)
Web version available.

The Graphic. (April 16, 1910)
London, England (weekly).
Notes: Sultan of Servia on cover. Two-page, bicolor print of fishing dories on the Newfoundland banks; full page on Ella Wheeleer Wilcox, and full page engraving of war in Aden.

Gray, Janet, editor.
She wields a pen : American women poets of the nineteenth century.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1997.
xlii, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index. (English-language poets): Eliza Lee Follen -- Sarah Josepha Hale -- Hannah F. Gould -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Caroline Gilman -- Penina Moise -- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-a-quay) -- Elizabeth Oakes-Smith -- Frances Anne Kemble -- Margaret Fuller -- Mary S.B. Dana Shindler -- Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman -- Ada (Sarah Louisa Forten) -- Catherine Ana Warfield and Eleanor Percy Lee -- Julia Ward Howe -- Ann Plato -- Alice Cary -- Margaret Junkin Preston -- Frances Jane Crosby van Alstyne -- Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard -- Phoebe Cary -- Lucy Larcom -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Achsa W. Sprague - - Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Louisa May Alcott -- Elizabeth Akers Allen -- Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) -- Sarah C. Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Sarah M.B. Piatt -- Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert -- Queen Lili'uokalani (Lydia Kamakaeha) -- Adah Isaacs Menken -- Owl Woman (Juana Manwell Papago) -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Ina Coolbrith -- Emma Lazarus -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Rose Hartwick Thorpe -- Mollie E. Moore Davis -- Edith M. Thomas -- Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Zaragoza Clubs (various Mexican-American poetesses with English translations by Luis A. Torres) -- Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman -- Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard -- Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) -- Louise Imogen Guiney -- Mary Wesoets): Eliza Lee Follen -- Sarah Josepha Hale -- Hannah F. Gould -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney.
ISBN: 0877455740 (cloth) 0877455759 (pbk.)
Quotation available.

Haeffner, Paul
"Auden and Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Notes and Queries 9 (March 1962): 110-111.

Hammerton, Sir J.A.
Concise Universal Biography.
London: Educational Book Company Limited, 1934-35.
Reprinted by Detroit: Gale, 1975.
Quotation available.

Handford, Thomas A.
Pleasant Hours with Illustrious Men and Women with Many Personal Reminiscenses.
Chicago: R.G. Badoux & Company, 1885.
408 p.
Poets: Lord Byron James Russell Lowell Robert Burns William Shakspeare William S. Carleton J.T. Trowbridge Bayard Taylor Alfred Tennyson Ella Wheeler Edgar Allan Poe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thomas Moore

Harold B. Lee Library. Dept. of Archives and Manuscripts.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author of "Poems of Passion".
[Provo, Utah] : Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1974-1979?
5 leaves : port. ; 28 cm.
NOTES: "Mss SC 96." Title from cover. ACCESSION: 30730055

Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
Writing a woman's life.
New York : Norton, c1988.
Quotation available.

Herman, Kali
Women in particular : an index to American women.
Phoenix, AZ: Onyx, 1984.
Quotation available.

Herringshaw, Thos. W.
Prominent Men and Women of the Day.
A. B. Gehman & Co., 1888.
Quotation available.

Herstory the story of six Rock County (Wis.) women.
Janesville (Wis.) Public Library.
Janesville, WI : The Library, 1980.
5 sound cassettes (ca. 6 hrs., 30 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. + 1 bibliography.
NOTES: Cosponsored by the Janesville Public Library and the Rock County Historical Society; funded in part by the Wisconsin Humanities Committee. Frances Willard (educator and social reformer) -- Cordelia Harvey (medical reformer) -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (poet) -- Lavinia Goodell and Angie King (attorneys at law) (pts. 1 and 2)

Herstory the story of six Rock County (Wis.) women.
Janesville (Wis.) Public Library.
Janesville, WI :; The Library, 1980.
1 video cassette (40 min.) :; sd., col.; 3/4 in. +; 1 bibliography.
Abstract: Maurice Montgomery of the Rock County Historical Society guides the viewer through an exhibit featuring memorabilia of Cordelia Harvey, Angie King and Lavinia Goodell, Francis Willard, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Pauline Jacobus. Following the tour is a lecture on Pauline pottery.
Note(s): Cosponsored by the Janesville Public Library and the Rock County Historical Society; funded in part by the Wisconsin Humanities Committee.
Dewey: 977.587

Heyl, Luella Mae.
A message from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "I live,"
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Austin publishing company, 1926.
140 p. port., 20 cm.

Holloway, Laura C.
The woman's story as told by twenty American women.
New York: John B. Alden, 1889.
Biographies of and stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rebecca Harding Davis, Edna Dean Proctor, Marietta Hollet, Nora Perry, Augusta Evans Wilson, Louise Chandler Moulton, Celia Thaxter, Mrs. Sara J. Lippincott, Abba Gould Woolson, Mary J. Holmes, Margaret E. Sangster, Olive Thorne Miller, Elizabeth W. Champney, Julia C. R. Dorr, Marion Harland, Louisa May Alcott, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and Rose Terry Cooke.
Quotation available.

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia.
2000.
Quotation available.

Ifkovic, Edward
Ella Moon : a novel based on the life of Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Oregon, WI: Waubesa Press, 2001.

Ireland, Norma Olin.
Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times : Biographies and Portraits.
Westwood, Mass: Faxon, 1970.
Quotation available.

Kindilien, Carlin T.
American poetry in the eighteen nineties; a study of American verse, 1890-1899.
Providence: Brown University Press, 1956.
Quotation available.

Kremer, Charles Edward.
Memoirs.
Chicago, IL : Chicago Law Printing Company, 1928.
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: "There is a nice section of poems in the back. The introduction to one of the poems is-In the Summer of 1874-Miss Ella Wheeler, the poetess, living with her parents on a farm near Madison, Wisconsin, invited me to visit her while Miss Hattie E Bryant, of Milwaukee, was her guest. I spent three or four pleasant days there and when I left she wrote in my pocket diary these lines..a poem follows."

Lake, Ivan Clyde
"A Glimpse of Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
The Wisconsin Magazine (October 1927): p.11.

Lewis, Naomi.
"The Domestic bard: Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Harper's Magazine 204: (Feb/March 1952): p. 47-53.

Lewis, Naomi.
A Visit to Mrs. Wilcox.
London: Cresset, 1957.
246 p. ; 21 cm.

Lewis, Naomi.
"Wilcox Revisited."
New Statesman (December 24, 1971): 901.

The Literary Guillotine.
Anonymous [William Wallace Whitelock].
New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1903,
1st edition stated. 7 1/2" X 5"
262 pages (+3 pages of ads).
"An authorized report of the Proceedings before The Literary Emergency Court" with Mark Twain, Oliver Herford, and 'Myself' on the bench and Charles Battell Loomis "For the Prosecution". This satire on contemporary authors takes the form of various court cases involving the following authors: Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, Winston Churchill, Booth Tarkington, Charles Major, Irving Bacheller, Richard Harding Davis, John Kendrick Banks, James Brander Matthews, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Sir Alfred Austin, Bliss Carman, Edwin Markham, Henry James, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Mark Twain, Oliver Merford, C. B. Loomis.

Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923
The part taken by women in American history.
New York, Arno Press, 1972 [c1912].
Quotation available.

Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature.
By A.C. Ward.
London: Longman Group, 1970.

Lowell, Amy
Poetry and Poets.
Boston: Houghton, 1930.
Quotation available.

Mai Fai.
Fruits of "passion" : dedicated to Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands : Published by the author, Mai Fai, 1890.
69, [1] p. ; 16 cm.
NOTES: Poems. Cover title: Fruits of passion / by Mai Fai; illustrated covers. Includes "Delilah", by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (p. 44-46)

Mai Fai.
Fruits of "passion" : dedicated to Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands : Published by the author, Mai Fai, 1890.
69, [1] p. ; 16 cm.
NOTES: Poems. Cover title: Fruits of passion / by Mai Fai; illustrated covers. Includes "Delilah", by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (p. 44-46)
Republished in: American poetry, 1871-1900, in the Harris Collection, Brown University Library. Reel no. 685. Item no. 2. Reproduced for the Cooperative Preservation Microfilming Project, Research Libraries Group. Low reduction. Microfilm. Andover, MA : Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1986. 1 microfilm reel (in part) ; 35 mm.

"Makers of Modern American Poetry - Women."
The Mentor 8:9 (June 15, 1920) Plate six.
Quotation available.

Marden, Orison Swett
Little visits with great Americans.
New York : Success Co., 1903, 1905.
158 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 20 cm.
NOTES: Includes "visits" with Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram Stevens Maxim, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Michael Schwab, Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, Sir Thomas Lipton, Darius Ogden Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Judson Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert C. Clowry, Herbert H. Vreeland, Samuel Gompers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Thomas C. Platt, Tom L. Johnson, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Whitcomb Riley, Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Dean Howells, General Lew Wallace, Mrs. Burton Harrison, etc.
Quotation available.

McAllister, I..G..
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox and her poems."
English Illustrated Magazine 48 (November 1912): 180-4.
port.

McHenry, Robert (ed.)
Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women.
Copyright © 1994, 1995.
Quotation available.

McHenry, Robert (ed.)
Liberty's Women.
Springfield, Mass: Merriam, 1980.
Quotation available.

Melton, W. C.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. An appreciation ...
Book News Monthly 33: (May 1915): 424-5.

Theodore Mischel
"Bad Art as the 'Corruption of Consciousness'".
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Mar., 1961), p. 396
Quotation available.

 The Milton House Museum Historic Site, Milton, Wisconsin
[Web page http://www.miltonhouse.org/ellawhee.html]
View this web site.

Morris, Lloyd R.
Postscript to yesterday; America: the last fifty years.
New York: Random House, 1947.
Quotation available.

Mott, Frank Luther.
A History of American magazines.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957-1968.
Quotation available.

Muggah, Mary Gates, and Raihle, P.H.
Meet your neighbor.
Chippewa Falls bk. agency, 1946, 177 p.
[Ella Wheeler Wilcox] p. 83-85.

Muldoon, Sylvan Joseph.
Psychic experiences of famous people.
Aries Press, 1947, 201 p.
[Ella Wheeler Wilcox] p. 114-23.

Myers, Robin.
A dictionary of literature in the English language, from Chaucer to 1940.
Oxford: Pergamon, [1970]
Quotation available.

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography.
Clifton, NJ: J.T.White, 1893-
Quotation available.

The New Century Cyclopedia of Names.
Edited by Clarence L. Barnhart.
New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1954.
Quotation available.

The New York Times "ELLA W. WILCOX, POETESS, DIES AT 64" [Obituary]
Friday, October 31, 1919
Full text of this article is available.

Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary.
Edward T. James, editor; Janet Wilson James, associate editor; Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. v. III, page 606-607.
Quotation available.

"One Hundred Americans”
The Metropolitan Portrait Gallery.
The Metropolitan, 44 Broadway, N.Y., 1888.
25 in. by 19 in.
“Engraved and Printed By The Moss Eng. Co., N.Y.”
Notes: Includes Alan Thurman, Henry Watterson,  R. B. Hayes, Miss Francis E. Willard, S.F.B. Morse, Henry Longfellow, Miss Clara Morris, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Jos Pulitzer, most Civil War Generals, and many more.

The Oxford companion to American literature.
Hart, James David. (ed.)
[2nd ed., rev. and enl.]
New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.
Quotation available.

The Oxford companion to English literature.
Harvey, Sir Paul. (ed.)
Oxford: Clarendon, 1946.
Quotation available.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Drabble, Margaret (ed.)
Revised Edition
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Quotation available.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English.
Edited by Ian Hamilton.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Quotation available.

Palo, Dr. John
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) : Writer and Mystic Rosicrucian.
[webpage article]
Full text of this article is available.

Palo, Dr. John
Little Sayings of the Great Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
New York, NY: John Palo, 1997.

Pardee-Clark, Jean
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox"
(September 1896)

The Penguin Companion to World Literature. American Literature.
Edited by Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram, and Jean Franco.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1971.

Pittock, Malcolm
"In Defence of Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Durham University Journal. Durham, England. 1973, 34, 86-89.

"Poetess of the plain people."
National Magazine 48 (November 1919): 471-2.
por.

"Portrait."
Bookman (London) 55 (December 1918): sup 16.

"Portrait."
Bookman (London) 57 (December 1919): 91.

"Portrait."
Metropolitan Magazine 32 (June 1910): 356.

Portrait. National Magazine 51 (October 1922): 214.

Portrait. Review of Reviews (London) 50 (October 1914): 283.

Powell, Charles.
The poets in the nursery.
London : New York : J. Lane ; John Lane Co., 1920.
79, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
NOTES: Parodies of twenty modern poets, pretended treatment of well known nursery rhymes. "Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh"--T.p. verso. Bound in maroon cloth over boards; top edge trimmed. In: American Poetry, 1900-1950, in the Harris Collection, Brown University Library. Reel no. 1419. Item no. 10. Reproduced for the Great Collections Microfilming Project, Phase IV, Research Libraries Group. Microfilm. Providence, RI. : Brown University Library, 1995. 1 microfilm reel (in part) ; 35 mm. ... Low reduction.
SUBJECT: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Parodies, imitations, etc. Poe, Edgar Allan, -- 1809-1849 -- Parodies, imitations, etc. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, -- 1850-1919 -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
Quotation available.

Quincy, Mary A.
"Sketch."
National Magazine 30 (December 1913): 506-8.
por.

Ramsay, Isabel
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poetess and Spiritualist."
In "The Occult Review", Christmas Number, December 1919, p. 336-340.
London: William Rider and Son, Ltd., 1919.
Full text of this article is available.

Raney, William Francis.
Wisconsin a story of progress.
New York : Prentice-Hall, inc., 1940.
 xvii, 554 p. front. (double map) illus. (incl. ports., maps) diagrs. 24 cm.
Quotation available.

What Can A Woman Do: Or Her Position In The Business and Literary World.
Rayne, M. L.
Illustrated with numerous blue-toned engravings.
Springfield,Ohio: Eagle Publishing Co., 1893.
Includes such literary examples as Marian Evans (better known as George Eliot),Harriet Beecher Stowe,Margaret Fuller Ossoli,Julia Ward Howe,Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Journalism exemplified by Middy Morgan,Sarah Hale,Lucy Larcom; Law with Belva Lockwood,Kate Kane,Judith Ellen Foster;Medicine with Dr. Mary Jacobi,Dr. Nancy Hill,Dr. Emily Pardee,Dr. Emily Pope; Government Officials with Ada Sweet;Dentists such as Elizabeth Morey;Wood Engraver Irene Rucker

The Reader's encyclopedia of American literature.
Herzberg, Max J. (ed.)
New York: Crowell, 1962.
Quotation available.

Reckard, Gardner Arnold.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and the bungalow.
The Connecticut Quarterly 1(3) (July 1895): [219]-227.
illus., port. 24 cm.
Quotation available.

Religious Leaders of America. A biographical guide to founders and leaders of religious bodies, churches, and spiritual groups in North America.
By J. Gordon Melton.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong
Principles of literary criticism.
2nd edition
London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1955.
Quotation available.

Rickard, Alan
"In Search of a Forgotten Poet."
Biblionews and Australian notes and queries 17(1) March 1992, p. 23-25.

Ritterhouse, Jessie Belle.
The Little book of American poets, 1787-1900.
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971, c1917.
xxiii, 350 p. 21 cm.
(Granger Index Reprint Series)
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"Special Ella Wheeler Wilcox Issue."
Rock County Chronicle, vol. 1, No. 4, December 1955.
Janesville, Wisconsin: Rock County Historical Society, 1955.

Rogers, Agnes, 1893-
Women are here to stay; the durable sex in its infinite variety through half a century of American life.
New York: Harper, [1949].
Quotation available.

Romine, Scott
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox as a Source for W.B. Yeat's 'The Choice'".
Notes on Modern Irish Literature, Butler PA (NMIL). 1992, 4, 17-21.

Saltzman, Pauline
"Ouija Board Messages for Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Fate Magazine 13(9) (September 1960)
Full text available.

Satter, Beryl
Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Introduction: New Thought in late-Victorian America -- The era of woman and the problem of desire -- The mother or the warrior: mind, matter, selfhood, and desire in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans -- Emma Curtis Hopkins and the spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 -- Sex and desirelessness: the New Thought novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham -- Money and desire: Helen Wilmans and the reorientations of New Thought -- New thought and early progressivism -- New Thought and popular psychology, 1905-1920 -- Conclusion: New Thought in American culture after 1920.

Shultz, Karen
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox : Rosicrucian Mystic and Muse."
The Rosicrucian Digest (May 1986), 8-11,34.

"Sketch." (por.)
Literary Digest 63 (Nov. 22, 1919): 32-33.

Smith, Jessie Welborn
[Unknown article title]
"an interview of Ella Wheeler Wilcox by Jessie Welborn Smith about fashions."
The Criterion of Fashion (formerly Toilettes) with Ladies Home Journal Fashions. (December 1913)

Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem.
Edited by Ernest Hurst Cherrington, William Eugene Johnson, and Frances Cora Stoddard.
Westerville, OH: 1925-30

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed.
A Library of American Literature from the earliest settlement to the present time.
New York: Webster, 1889-90.
Quotation available.

Stern, Madeleine B.
Purple Passage : the life of Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c1953.
Quotation available.

Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872-
Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and compay 1923.
5 p. l., 3-340 p. 19-1/2 cm.
NOTES: One-poem men.--There is no death, by J. L. McCreery.--Kaiser & co. , by A. M. Rose.--A visit from St. Nicholas, by C. C. Moore.--There is no unbelief, by Lizzie Y. Case.--Casey at the bat, by E. L. Thayer.--If I should die to-night, by Arabella E. Smith and B. King.--Waiting, by J. Burroughs.-- Ben Bolt, by T. D. English.--Beautiful snow, by J. W. Watson.- -Nothing to wear, by W. A. Butler.--Solitude, by Ella W. Wilcox.--Rock me to sleep, by Elizabeth Akers.--The lesson of the water-mill, by Sarah Doudney.--What my lover said, by H. Greene.--Derelict, by Y. E. Allison.

Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872-
Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them.
New York : Dodd, Mead, 1935.
402 p. 20 cm.
NOTES: One-poem men.--There is no death, by J. L. McCreery.--Kaiser & Co., by A. M. Rose.--A visit from St. Nicholas, by C. C. Moore.--There is no unbelief, by Lizzie Y. Case.--Casey at the bat, by E. L. Thayer.--If I should die to-night, by Arabella E. Smith and B. King.--Waiting, by J. Burroughs.-- Ben Bolt, by T. D. English.--Beautiful snow, by J. W. Watson.- -Nothing to wear, by W. A. Butler.--Solitude, by Ella W. Wilcox.--Rock me to sleep, by Elizabeth Akers.--The lesson of the water-mill, by Sarah Doudney.--What my lover said, by H. Greene.--Derelict, by Y. E. Allison.--The mouse-trap.--More about the mouse-trap.--Notes on some familiar quotations.

Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872-
Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them.
Freeport, NY : Books for Libraries Press, [1971].
402 p. 22 cm.
Reprint of the 1935 edition.
NOTES: One-poem men.--There is no death, by J. L. McCreery.--Kaiser & Co., by A. M. Rose.--A visit from St. Nicholas, by C. C. Moore.--There is no unbelief, by Lizzie Y. Case.--Casey at the bat, by E. L. Thayer.--If I should die to-night, by Arabella E. Smith and B. King.--Waiting, by J. Burroughs.-- Ben Bolt, by T. D. English.--Beautiful snow, by J. W. Watson.- -Nothing to wear, by W. A. Butler.--Solitude, by Ella W. Wilcox.--Rock me to sleep, by Elizabeth Akers.--The lesson of the water-mill, by Sarah Doudney.--What my lover said, by H. Greene.--Derelict, by Y. E. Allison.--The mouse-trap.--More about the mouse-trap.--Notes on some familiar quotations.
Quotation available.

Thomas, Edward.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Poetry and Drama 1,1 (March 1913): 33-42.
Full text of this article is available.

Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949.
“Ella Wheeler Wilcox” in Adventures in editing, chapter III, p. 93-100.
New York : D. Appleton, 1926.
239 p., [11] leaves of plates : port., facsim. ; 22 cm.
Quotation available.

Towne, Elizabeth
Good Books and Information about Ella Wheller Wilcox's New Autobiography and "The Every Day Book," by Suzanne Wardlaw.
Holyoke, Massachusetts.
15pp. Photos. 7 1/2" x 5" pamphlet catalog

Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1928.
Edited by Henry Collins Brown.
Hastings-On-Hudson, New York: Valentine's Manual Inc, 1928.
422 p.
7½" x 5¼"
Names: Edwin A. Abbey, Maude Adams, John F. Ahearn, Ajeeb, the Chessman , E.F. Albee, The Alcotts, H.M. Alden, T.B. Aldrich, John Jacob Astor , W.W. Astor, George F. Baker, Carrie Balestier, Wolcott Balestier, J. Bangs, Amelia Barr, Lawrence Barrett, Becky Jones, Chip Bellew, E.C. Benedict, James Gordon Bennett, John Bigelow, Poultney Bigelow , Alexander M. Ring, Elisha Bird, E.H. Blashfield, Neltjae Blatchan , Edward W. Bok, Ben Bolt, Robert Bonner, Maurice Bouvier, Will Bradley , Claude Bragdon, James L. Breese, H.C. Brown, T.B. Browne, H.C. Bunner , E.L. Burlingame, F.C. Burnand, Laura Burt, Richard Canfield, Captain Rourke, Captain Scobie, Henry Guy Carleton, Will Carqueville, Henry R. Carse, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Robert W. Chambers, Albert Chevalier, Joseph H. Choate, Kate Claxton, Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Grover Cleveland , Hayward Cleveland, William W. Cohen, Timothy Cole, Schuyler Colfax , J.K. Corbett, John Corcoran, Marie Corelli, Mario Cosenza, Justice Salvator A. Cotillo, Fayles Coward, Clarkson Cowl, Palmer Cox, Bruce Crane, Hanford Crawford, Marion Crawford, James Creelman, Charles W. Culkin, Amos Cummings, Charles C. Curran, Cyrus Curtis, George William Curtis, Pete Dailey, Dorothy Dainty, Augustin Daly, Frank Damrosch , Charles A. Dana, Caran d'Ach, Thomas H. Darlington, Bishop James H. Darlington, L. Clarke Davis, R.H. Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis , Richard Harding Davis, Frederick de Belleville, George W. De Bevoise , Rev. Dr. Deems, Rev. Edward Deems, Reginald deKoven, Selina Delaro , Cleo de Merode, Jack Dempsey, Theodore L. Devinne, Admiral Dewey, Chief of Police Devery, Henry E. Dixey, Bud Doble, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge , Mr. Frank N. Doubleday, Mrs. Frank N. Doubleday, Pete Downing, James F. abcxs Drake, Dr. I. Wyman Drummond, James B. Duke, Franklin B. Dwight , Elisha Dyer Jr., Gertrude Ederic, Alexander Eiseman, W.W. Ellsworth , Thomas Dunn English, Edward Epstean, William L. Ettinger, Jimmy Fadden , W.E.S. Fales, Farmer Dunn, Nellie Farren, Mrs. Fiske, Henry Ford , Jim Ford, Della Fox, Vincent J. Frank, Simon Franklin, Charles Frohman , A.B. Frost, John W. Gates, William R. Gaynor, John M. Gears, Charles Dana Gibson, E.B. Gibson, E. Swain Gifford, W.S. Gilbert, Richard Watson Gilder, Mabel Gilman, Lottie Gilson, Montague Glass, Lawrence Godkin , Mrs. Robert Goelet, George Goethals, Governor Flower, Charley Graham , Horace Greeley, Baron Greenbaum, Valerian Gribayedoff, Oscar J. Gude , William D. Guthrie, Seymour Haden, Seymour Haden, A. Gordon Hamersley , Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, Oscar Hammerstein, Nancy Fish, J. Henry Harper, E. Henry Harriman, Carlyle Harris, John F. Harris, Harold Hart , Percy Hart, David Harum, Thomas Hastings, John P. Haynes, George F. Hazen, Frank Hazenflug, Anna Held, Oliver Herford, James J. Hill , Winslow Homer, De Wolf Hopper, Stephen H. Horgan, Rosewell Horr, Bronson Howard, W.D. Howells, S.S. Howland, Charles E. Hughes, Rupert Hughes, Abe Hummel, Joe Humphries, Collis P. Huntington, James Hazen Hyde, Inspector Williams, Henry Irving, May Irwin, Arthur Curtiss James , Jerome K. Jerome, Larry Jerome, William T. Jerome, Henry C. Jones , Raymond E. Jones, Jay Jopado, E.H. Gary Judge, Judge Levy, Judge Otto Rosalsky, Judge Truax, S.J. Kaufman, B.F. Keith, Harry Kennedy , Frederick Keppel, Bud Kirby, Kurtz, the photographer, Wilton Lackaye , Charles R. lamb, Arthur M. Lambport, George Law, Prescott Lawrence , Madeline Lemaire, Sinclair Lewis, J.C. Leydecker, Charles A. Lindbergh , Jack London, Anita Loos, John W. Lovell, Will Low, George B. Lukes , Walt Macdougal, R.H. Macy, Richard Mansfield, Marcus M. Marks, Edna May, Mayor Strong, Mayor Van Wyck, George W. Melville, S. Stanwood Menken, W.L. Metcalf, Dr. Weir S. Mitchell, Jack Moran, Edward D. Morgan , Henry Morgan, Henry Morgenthau, Levi P. Morton, Frank A. Munsey, Dr. Munyon, S.S. McClure, John Y. McKane, Harry McVickar, Mrs. Nack , Peter Newell, George Newnes, Eben E. Olcott, George W. Olvany, Maj. Gen. J.F. O'Ryan, Walter Page, Maxfield Parrish, Edward Penfield, Henry Pillsbury, Pittsburgh Phil, Henry C. Plant, Walton Plunger, John Russell Pope, Fitz John Porter, Gen. Horace Porter, Paul Potter, Helen Potts , Bruce Price, Prince Henry, Theodore H. Price, Joseph Pulitzer, Howard Pyle, Rabbi Wise, Charley Reed, Ethel Reed, Ada Rehan, Agnes Repplier , Louis Rhead, Charley Reinhart, James Whitcomb Riley, George Ripley , J.D. Rockefeller Sr., W. Rockefeller, E.P. Roe, Simon F. Rothschild , H.K Satterlee, Brillat Savarin, Senator Quinn, Senator Wagner, Dr. Albert Shaw, Pat Sheedy, George Sheldon, Upon Sinclair, W.T. Smedley , F. Hopkinson Smith, Roswell Smith, John A. Starin, Frank Stockton , William L. Strong, S.S. Stroock, John L. Sullivan, D.B.V. Sutherland , Bayard Taylor, C.J. Taylor, Ellen Terry, Augustus Thomas, William Boyce Thompson, Martin Thorn, Louis Tiffany, Mark Twain, Louis Untermeyer , Samuel Untermyer, William H. Vanderbilt, Robert Van Wyck, Henry Villard , Ed Walcott, Henry L. Walker, George F. Waring, Henry Watterson, Edwin Lord Weeks, Francis L. Wellman, Edward Noyes Westcott, A.C. Wheeler , General Joe Wheeler, Stanford White, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde , Irving Wiles, Jack Willard, Ben Wilson, Francis A. Wilson, General George Wingate, William Winter, Al Woods, R. Caton Woodville, Frank Work, Charles L. Wright, Harold Bell Wright, William S. Yerkes, Edward C. Zabriskie.

Walker, Cheryl,; 1947-
American women poets of the nineteenth century : an anthology.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1992.
xlvii, 423 p. ; p., 23 cm.
Series: American women writers series;
TOC: Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) -- Maria Gowen Brooks (1794-1845) -- Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) -- Elizabeth Oakes-Smith (1806-1893) -- Emma Embury (1806-1863) -- Lucretia Davidson (1808-1825) -- Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850) -- Anne Lynch Botta (1815-1891) -- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) -- Alice Cary (1820-1871) -- Maria White Lowell (1821-1853) -- Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) -- Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) -- Frances Harper (1825-1911) -- Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) -- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) -- Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) -- Mary Tucker Lambert (1838-?) -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1839?-1868) -- Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) -- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1850?-1916) -- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925) -- Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) -- Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) -- Mary Weston Fordham (1862?-?).
ISBN: 0813517907 (cloth) :; 0813517915 (pbk.) :
Quotation available.

Walker, Cheryl.
The Nightengale's burden : women poets and American culture before 1900.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1982.
Quotation available.

Walker, E.D.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Cosmopolitan 6 (November 1888), 46-52.

Walters, David Arthur
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
c2000
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dragonpearl/epella.html

Walters, David
"The Fallen Poetess."
Date first published: 15-8-2000
Previously published in: Empirical Pragmatics-Truth Comes True, Jan-2000

Walters, David
"Marketing Lightfoot"
Date first published: 1-7-2000
Previously published in: Themestream, 2000

Watts, Emily Stipes.
Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945.
University of Texas at Austin Press, 1977.
Quotation available.

Webster's American Biographies.
1979 edition.
Edited by Charles Van Doren.
Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1979.

Webster's Biographical Dictionary.
Springfield, Mass: Merriam, 1972
Quotation available.

Wendorff, Laura Christine.
Race, ethnicity, and the voice of the "poetess" in the lives and works of four late-nineteenth-century American women poets : Frances E. W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Louise Guiney, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox .
vi, 331 p. ; 21 cm.
NOTES: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-331). Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1995.

Wheeler, M. P.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox." in  Sketches of Wisconsin pioneer women by Dexheimer, Florence Chambers, 1866-1925 and McCafferty, Imogene G.,; b. 1827.
TOC: (Women who published books): Jane [i.e. Janet] Jennings -- Frances E. Willard -- [Reminiscences, p. 42-47] / Imogene St. John McCafferty -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Frances J. Morrill [Edwards] -- Mrs. John H. Kenzie [i.e. Kinzie] -- Mrs. Elizabeth Yates Atkinson Richmond -- Susa Viletta Humes Sturtevant -- Rose C. Swart -- Alice Foote Conkey [Reid] -- Laura Almira Wood Catlin.
Fort Atkinson, Wis. : Hoard & Sons,  [1924?]. p. 57-60.
186 p. : p., ports. ;, 21cm.
Quotation available.

Wheeler, M. P. (Marcus Pratt), 1837-1928.
Evolution of Ella Wheeler Wilcox and other Wheelers.
Madison, Wis. : [M.P. Wheeler], 1921.
81 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Who Was Who in America.
Chicago, IL: Marquis Publishing, 1968
Quotation available.

Who's Who in America.
Chicago, IL: Marquis Publishing.
Quotation available.

Wickland, Carl August, 1861-
Thirty years among the dead.
5th ed.
Los Angeles : National Psychological Institute, 1924.
xii, 466 p. : ports. ; 20 cm.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
"Literary Confessions of a Western Poetess."
Heading: Our Experience Meetings
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine 37 (Jan./June 1886): 536.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
"My Autobiography" (Article)
The Cosmopolitan. (v. XXXI, no. 4) August 1901. p. 415-421
Full text of this article is available.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
The story of a literary career.
With a description of Mrs. Wilcox's home and life by Ella Giles Ruddy.
Holyoke, Mass. : E. Towne, 1905.
60 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports. ; 19 cm
Full text of this book is available.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
The Worlds and I.
New York: George II Doran Company, [c1918]
ix p., 1 l., 1/-420 p. front., plates, ports. 22cm

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
The worlds and I.
New York : Arno Press, 1980.
ix, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
SERIES: Signal lives
NOTES: Reprint of the ed. published by G.H. Doran Co., New York.
ISBN: 0405128673

Wilder, Marshal P.
The Sunny Side of the Street.
1905.
1st Edition.
Profusely illustrated with drawings by Bart Haley.
Notes: A continuation of the author/humorist's autobiographical memoirs relating anecdotes and stories involving such luminaries as: European Royalty, Henry Ward Beecher, James G. Blaine, Grover Cleveland, Kit Carson, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Jim Corbett, Richard Harding Davis, Chauncey Depew, Charles Dickens, W.S. Gilbert, William Gillette, U.S. Grant, Horace Greely, Benjamin Harrison, Henry Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, William McKinley, Bill Nye, Opie Reid, James Whitcomb Riley, John D. Rockefeller, Baron Rothschild, John Philip Sousa, Nicola Tesla, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Lew Wallace, Artemus Ward, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, et.al.

Wimsatt, William Kurtz.
The Verbal icon; studies in the meaning of poetry.
Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1967.
Quotation available.

Wisconsin writers.
Madison, Wis. : The society, 1972.
65 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
SERIES: Badger history / The state historical society of Wisconsin ; v.2 6, no. 1
NOTES: Cover title. With pen in hand--My boyhood in Wisconsin--Words to learn and use--Margaret Ashmun-Wisconsin writer--A man of many talents-- Wisconsin's own library--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--Crossword puzzle--Zona Gale-Villiage writer--Wisconsin's Hamlin Garland- -Recording the river and prairie--Marion F. Archer--Wisconsin through the eyes of young writers--Writing with pictures-- Using what we've learned.

Wisconsin Writers. Sketches and studies.
By William A. Titus.
Chicago, 1930.
Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1974.

Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen.
Literary haunts & homes; American authors.
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1899.
Quotation available.

Young, Arthur H.
Authors' readings.
New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897
x, 215 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
NOTES: With a biography of each author. (from t.p.) Recitations from their own works by: James Whitcomb Riley -- Bill Nye -- Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- Eugene Field -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Will Carleton -- Hamlin Garland -- M Quad -- Opie Read.
Quotation available.

Zanton, Lilah.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox"
in Badger History : Wisconsin Writers. p. 23-27
Badger History, 26(1), September 1972.
Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, c1972.
Quotation available.

Zantow, Lilah.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
Famous Wisconsin Women.
v. 5
Madison: Women's Auxilary State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975.


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