ENGL 292: American Literature Before 1865

University of Minnesota professors Toni McNaron (English) and Carol Miller (American Studies and American Indian Studies) founded VG/Voices from the Gaps in 1996 to uncover, highlight, and share the works of marginalized artists, predominately women writers of color living and working in North America. This page leads to search results for 19th century, with biographies and bibliographies available for each listed author.

From the Celebration of Women Writers website, a listing of First Nations writers. The page does not have a search function, but you can browse the alphabetical list, taking note of the dates listed next to each author.

From the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, this resource features out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources and the periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by Natives.

This bibliography includes primary bibliographies of works by 19th century American novelist, Catharine Maria Sedgwick. It also includes secondary bibliographies of contemporary reviews of her work, as well as books and articles written about Sedgwick.

The Margaret Fuller Society website includes a resources page with links to recent scholarship, digital collections, and more information about the prominent 19th century literary woman.

This website includes a detailed bibliography of recent scholarship related to Lydia Maria Child, as well as reviews of her work.

In November 2017 Christen A. Smith created Cite Black Women as a campaign to push people to engage in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.

From the University of Minnesota, this guide shares racist research systems and practices, followed by resources for mitigating those problematic systems and practices, but the creators acknowledge that this is not a solution to the issues of racism embedded in research.