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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.
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Borup, Rachel. "Writing Home: From Wild Spaces to Living Places in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home: Who'll Follow?" The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, 1996. 220-22.
Bray, Robert. "The Art of Caroline Kirkland: The Structure of A New Home: Who'll Follow?." Midwestern Miscellany 3 (1975): 11-17.
Emsley, Sarah. "Caroline Kirkland: Whose Home? Who'll Follow?." Henry Street 6.2 (Fall 1997): 71-90.
Gebhard, Ann C. "The Invention of Female Authorship in Nineteenth Century America." DAI 53.1 (Jul 1992): DA9217308. Degree granting institution: U of Virginia.
- - -. "Comic Displacement: Caroline M. Kirkland's Satire of Frontier Democracy in A New Home, Who'll Follow?" Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Ed. Susan L. Roberson. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1998. 157-75.
Healy, Kathleen M. "Picturing Utopia: A Cultural and Literary Analysis of the Iconography of Landscape in Selected American Paintings and Works by Charles Brockden Brown, Caroline Kirkland, Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau." DAI 56.9 (Mar 1996): DA9600186. Degree granting institution: Pennsylvania State U, 1995.
Hill, Douglas B., Jr. ed. A New Home Who'll Follow? NY: Garrett, 1970.
Keetley, Dawn E. "Unsettling the Frontier: Gender and Racial Identity in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Forest Life." Legacy 12.1 (1995): 17-37.
Lance, Jerry S. "Settlement and Town Building in the Works of Four American Authors: James Fenimore Cooper, Caroline Kirkland, Herbert Quick, and Conrad Richter." DAI 57.2 ( Aug 1996): DA9619625. Degree granting institution: U of Tennessee, 1995.
Larson, Kelli A. "Kirkland's Myth of the American Eve: Re Visioning the Frontier Experience." Midwestern Miscellany 20 (1992): 9-14.
Osborne, William S. Caroline M. Kirkland. NY: Twayne, 1972. PS2192 O8
- - -. ed. A New Home - Who'll Follow? New Haven, CT: Coll. & UP, 1965.
Roberts, Audrey. "Caroline M. Kirkland: Additions to the Canon." Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 86.3 (1983-85): 338-46.
Spencer, Stacy L. "Legacy Profile: Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)." Legacy 8.2 (Fall 1992): 133-40.
Walker, Nancy A. "Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)." Nineteenth Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 286-92.
Watson, Marsha J. "Intertextuality and Early American Women Writers." DAI 58.3 (Sep 1997): DA9728606. Degree granting institution: U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1997.
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