| Top | Primary Works

Monsiuer Motte, 1888 (E-Text); Tales of a Time and Place, 1892; Balcony Stories, 1893 (E-Text); New Orleans: The Place and the People, 1895; Stories from Louisiana History, 1905; The Plesant Ways of St. Medard, 1916; La Dame de Sainte Hermine, 1924; Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters, 1932.

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Birnbaum, Michele A. "Dark Intimacies: The Racial Politics of Womanhood in the 1890s." DAI 53.6 (Dec 1992): DA9230333.

Bush, Robert. "The Patrician Voice: Grace King." Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. Ed. Richard S. Kennedy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 8-15.

- - -. Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings. Baton Rouge: La. State U.P., 1973.

Coleman, Linda S. "At Odds: Race and Gender in Grace King's Short Fiction." Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography. Eds. Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 33-54.

DeJean, Joan. "Critical Creolization: Grace King and Writing on French in the American South." Southern Literature and Literary Theory. Ed. Jefferson Humphries. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990. 109-26.

Dresner, Zita Z. "Irony and Ambiguity in Grace King's 'Monsieur Motte'." New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, 1992. 169-83.

Elfenbein, Anna S. Women on the Color Line: Evolving Stereotypes and the Writings of George Washington Cable, Grace King, Kate Chopin. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1994.

Falvey, Ellen C. "Reconstructed Virtue: Grace King's Gothic Realism." DAI 59.4 (Oct 1998): DA9831707.

Heidari, Melissa W. "Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910." DAI 51.5 (Nov 1990): 1613A.

King, Patricia G. "The Autobiographical Witness: American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War." DAI 61.10 (Apr 2001): DA9993467.

Juncker, Clara. "Grace King: Feminist, Southern Style." Southern Quarterly 26.3 (Sprg 1988): 15-30.

- - -. "Grace King: Woman-as-Artist." Southern Literary Journal 20.1 (Fall 1987): 37-44.

- - -. "The Mother's Balcony: Grace King's Discourse of Femininity." New Orleans Review 15.1 (Sprg 1988): 39-46.

Keely, Karen A. "Marriage Plots and National Reunion: The Trope of Romantic Reconciliation in Postbellum Literature." Mississippi Quarterly 51.4 (Fall 1998): 621-48.

Kirby, David K. Grace King. Boston: Twayne, 1980. PS2178 .K57

Kreyling, Michael. "After the War: Romance and the Reconstruction of Southern Literature." Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise. Eds. Philip Castille and William Osborne. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1983. 111-25.

McReynolds, Douglas J. "Passion Repressed: The Short Fiction of Grace King." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 37.4 (1983): 207-216.

Nimeiri, Ahmed. "'Reconstruction, which was also war ...': Realism and Allegory in Grace King's The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard." Mississippi Quarterly 41.1 (Wint 1987-1988): 39-54.

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

Piacentino, Edward J. "The Enigma of Black Identity in Grace King's 'Joe'." Southern Literary Journal 19.1 (Fall 1986): 56-67.

Robison, Lori. "'Why, Why Do We Not Write Our Side': Gender and Southern Self-Representation in Grace King's Balcony Stories. Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. Eds. Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997. 54-71.

Shillingsburg, Miriam J. "The Ascent of Woman, Southern Style: Hentz, King, Chopin." Eds. Philip Castille and William Osborne. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1983. 127-40.

Skandera-Trombley, Laura E. "Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 281-85.

Smith, Katharine C. "Conflicting Visions of the South in Grace King's Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters." Southern Quarterly 36.3 (Sprg 1998): 133-45.

Sneller, Judy E. "Man-Figs and Magnolias, Ladies and Lariats: Humor and Irony in the Writings of Three New Orleans Women, 1865-1916." DAI 53.8 (Feb 1993): DA9300566.

Taylor, Helen. "The Case of Grace King." Southern Review 18.4 (Fall 1982): 685-702.

- - -. Gender, race, and region in the writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP, 1989. PS266 .L8 T39

Williams, Carol A. "A Southern Writer's Retrospective: Betrayal, Rage, and Survival in the Reconstruction Fiction of Grace King." DAI 47.4 (Oct 1986): 1328A.

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