Biography

Winter, Kate H. Marietta Holley: Life with "Josiah Allen's Wife." Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1984, 182 p.

Offers a critical biography that attempts to understand the forces that shaped Holley and her work.

Criticism

Armitage, Shelley. "Marietta Holley: The Humorist as Propagandist." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 34, no. 4 (fall 1980): 193-201.

Analyzes Holley's use of humor, asserting that it exposes and challenges women's ideas about themselves.

Curry, Jane. Marietta Holley. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996, 114 p.

Offers a full-length critical study; includes a detailed biography and chapters on Holley's most important writings.

Ericson, E. E. "The Dialect of Up-State New York: A Study of the Fold-Speech in Two Works of Marietta Holley." Studies in Philology 42, no. 3 (July 1945): 690-707.

Provides a linguistic study of Samantha at Saratoga and Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition.

Graulich, Melody. "'Wimmen is my theme, and also Josiah': The Forgotten Humor...