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Violets and Other Tales, 1895 (E-Text); The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, 1899.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. ed. Masterpieces of negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the negro from the days of slavery to the present time. NY: The Bookery Publishing Company. NY: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970. S663.N4 N4 1914a

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. 3 vols. Ed. Gloria T. Hull. NY: Oxford UP, 1988. PS3507 .U6228 1988

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Bauer, Margaret D. "When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich." Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 45-54.

Brooks, Kristina M. "Transgressing the Boundaries of Identity: Racial Pornography, Fallen Women, and Ethnic Others in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Edith Wharton." DAI 56.9 (Mar 1996): DA9602494.

Bryan, Violet H. "Race and Gender in the Early Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography. Eds. Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 122-38.

- - -. "Creating and Re-Creating the Myth of New Orleans: Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1987): 185-196.

Hull, Gloria T. "Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective." All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Eds. Gloria T. Hull, Patricia B. Scott, and Barbara Smith. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist P, 1982. 189-95. 

- - -. "'Two-Facing Life': The Duality of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Collections 4 (1989): 19-35.

- - -. "Shaping Contradictions: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Black Creole Experience." New Orleans Review 15.1 (Sprg 1988): 34-37.

- - -. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Regional Approach." Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective. Eds. Leonore Hoffmann and Deborah Rosenfelt. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1982. 64-68. 

Ijeoma, Charmaine N. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Biography." Collections 10 (2000): 25-54.

O'Neal, Mary A. "New Orleans Realists: Grace King, Kate Chopin, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." DAI 60.5 (Nov 1999): DA9928974.

Sempreora, Margot S. "Translating Women: The Short Fiction of Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Films of Julie Dash." DAI 58.3 (Sep 1997): DA9726599.

Whitlow, Roger. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: New Orleans Writer." Regionalism and the Female Imagination: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Emily Toth. NY: Human Sciences, 1985. 109-25.

Young, Patricia A. "Female Pioneers in Afro-American Drama: Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Mary Powell Burrill." DAI 47.8 (Feb 1987): 3043A.

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