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Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: Ina Coolbrith (1842-1928)

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Source: California Authors - IC

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Poet and Librarian, Coolbrith assisted Bret Harte in editing the Overland Monthly; in 1915, she was named by the California legislature as the state's first Poet Laureate.

Primary Works

A Perfect Day, 1881; The Singer of the Sea, 1894; Songs from the Golden Gate, 1895.

Selected Bibliography

Hubbard, George U. "Ina Coolbrith's Friendship with John Greenleaf Whittier." New England Quarterly 45.1 (Mar 1972): 109-18.

Morrow, Patrick D. "Power behind the Throne: Ina Coolbrith and the Politics of Submission." Kate Chopin Newsletter 2.1 (1976): 13-18.

Rhodehamel, Josephine, and Raymund Wood. Ina Coolbrith, librarian and laureate of California. Provo: Brigham Young UP, 1973. PS1397 C5 Z9

Scharnhorst, Gary. "Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 73-76.

Walker, Cheryl. "Ina Coolbrith and the Nightingale Tradition." Legacy 6.1 (Sprg 1989): 27-33.

Wood, Raymund F. "Librarian and Laureate: Ina Coolbrith of California." Markham Review 5 (1976): 35-39.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century - Ina Coolbrith." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/coolbrith.html (provide page date or date of your login). 
 

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