This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection focuses on woman writers and the ecologies of war; early eco-feminisms and circum-Atlantic revolutions; abolitionists, the Haitian Revolution, and the Caribbean World; French dispossession and female farmers. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History and Environmental History.
This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental History.
Women and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume I: Ecologies of War & Rebellion
General Introduction
Volume I Introduction
Part
1. America
1. Phillis Wheatley, Letter and To His Excellency General Washington, in
The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum, 2 (April 1776), p.
193
2. Consider Dickinson (1761-1854), The Hero, housed in the Pocumtuck Valley
Memorial Associations Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, MA.
3. Sally Ripley, Diary [ manuscript], 1799-1801, 1805-1809. (January 1800),
MSS. Octavo Vols. R. Diary. American Antiquarian Society, Wooster, MA.
4. Ann Eliza Bleecker, The History of Maria Kittle. In a Letter to Miss Ten
Eyck (Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1797)
5. Mercy Otis Warren, The Group, a Farce: As Lately Acted, and to be
Re-acted, to the Wonder of All Superior Intelligences; Nigh Head Quarters, at
Amboyne. In Two Acts. Boston: Edes and Gill,
1775. In the digital collection
Evans Early American Imprint Collection.
https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N11563.0001.001. University of Michigan Library
Digital Collections.
6. Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the new Constitution, and on the
foederal and state conventions. By a Columbian patriot. ; Sic transit gloria
Americana, Evans Early American Imprint Collection.
https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N16431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library
Digital Collections. Accessed August 4, 2023, pp. 5-6.
7. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Selections from The Linwoods; or, Sixty Years
Since in America (New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1835), pp. xi-xii; 13-14,
15-16; 40-43; 90-95.
8. Margaret Sidney [ Harriet Lothrop], The Little Maid of Concord Town: A
Romance of the American Revolution (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company,
1898), pp. 26-31.
Part
2. France
9. Sarah Pogson Smith, The Female Enthusiast (Charleston, SC: Printed for the
author, J. Hoff, 1807). Microform: Early American imprints, second series
(no. 13409). Catalog Record #286200.
10. Manon Marie-Jeanne Roland, (1754-1793), The Private Memoirs of Madame
Roland, edited by Edward Gilpin Johnson (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1900),
pp. 357-360, 364-365.
11. Louise Welles Murray, The Story of Some French Refugees and their
Azilum, 1793-1800, (Tioga Point Historical Society, 1903), pp. 38-43;
52-53; 86-90.
12. Letters of Mrs. Marie Jeanne Dohet dAutremont, mother of Louis Paul,
Alexander and August, in the dAutremont family papers, 1764-1955, translated
from the French by René Cheruy, A/A941, folder 1-3, housed in the Schlesinger
Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Part III. Haiti
13. Leonora Sansay, Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo in a
Series of Letters, Written by a Lady at Cape Francois to Colonel Burr, Late
Vice-President of the United States, Principally During the Command of
Colonel Rochambeau (Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808), pp. 1-20.
14. S., TheresaA Haytien Tale, African-American short story, in Freedoms
Journal (January 18, 25, February 8, 15, 1828).
https://jtoaa.americanantiquarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/theresa_hayt
ien.pdf
Part
4. The War of 1812
15. Frances Letcher Mitchell,
Chapter XVII, A Sovereign State, 1810-1820,
Georgia Land and People (Atlanta, GA: Franklin Printing and Publishing
Company, 1893), pp. 163-166, 169-170.
16. Sarah Ann Curzon, Preface, in Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A
Drama. And Other Poems (Toronto, Canada: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887).
17. Sarah Ann Curzon, A Ballad of 1812, in Laura Secord, the Heroine of
1812: A Drama. And Other Poems (Toronto, Canada: C. Blackett Robinson,
1887).
Part
5. Ireland
18. Anna Maria Hall, Sketches of Irish Character (London: Frederick Westley
and A. H. Davis, 1829), pp. 129-158.
19. Nora Aghas, Witness Statement, Bureau of Military History, 1913-1921,
Document No. W.S. 645 (BMH-CD-075-1-4, Military Archives, Ireland). Identity.
Sister of Thomas Ashe, Who died in 1917 Subject. Biographical note on Thomas
Ashe.
20. Annie Barrett, Witness Statement, Bureau of Military History, 1913-1921,
Document No. W.S.
1133. Identity. Intelligence Agent, Mallow Battalion, Cork
II Brigade. Subject. Intelligence work Mallow Battalion, Cork II Brigade,
1918-1921.
Part
6. India
21. Sarojini Naidu, Nightfall in the City of Hyberadad, The Golden
Threshold (London: William Heineman, 1905), pp. 90-91
22. Sarojini Naidu, Foreword, in The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death &
Destiny, 1915-1916 (London: William Heineman, 1917), p. ix
23. Sarojini Naidu The Gift of India, in The Broken Wing: Songs of Love,
Death & Destiny, 1915-1916, (London: William Heineman, 1917), pp. 5-6
Part
7. Africa
24. Louisa Hutchinson,
Chapter XIV: Newcastle, in In Tents in the Transvaal
(London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1879), pp. 116-125.
25. Florence Dixie, Defence of Zululand and its King (London: Chatto and
Windus, 1882), pp. 22-31, 43-46.
26. Frances Ellen Colenso, The Ruin of Zululand: An Account of British Doings
in Zululand Since the Invasion of 1879, Volume II (London: William Ridgeway,
1885), pp. v-viii, 1-2.
Part
8. Mexico and the American Civil War
27. Loreta Janeta Velazquez, The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the
Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known
as Lieutenant Harry P. Buford, edited by C. J. (Richmond, VA: Dustin, Gilman
& Co., 1876), pp. 5-6; 33-63; 95-96; 99-106.
28. Mary Ashton Livermore, Preface, in My Story of the War: A Womans
Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and
in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps and at the Front during the War
of the Rebellion (Hartford, Connecticut: A.D. Worthington, 1888), pp. 7-12.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe, A reply to The affectionate and Christian address
of many thousands of women of Great Britain and Ireland, to their sisters,
the women of the United States of America, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, on
behalf of many of thousands of American Women (London: Sampson Low, Son, and
Co.),
1863.
Index
Jillmarie Murphy is William D. Williams Professor of Literature, Neuroscience, and Women's & Gender Studies, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Union College, New York.
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