Baym, Nina, Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870, Cornell University Press, 1978.

Baym provides a critical guide to novels written by
women or that feature women characters in the midnineteenth
century.

Harris, Sharon M., Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Harris discusses Davis's influence on the literary
movement of American realism.

Mock, Michele L., "A Message to Be Given: The Spiritual Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis," in NWSA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2000, p. 44.

Mock explores Davis's beliefs and describes her as
a forerunner of contemporary ecofeminism.

Pfaelzer, Jean, Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Pfaelzer discusses Davis's place as a founder of the
social realist movement.

Yellin, Jean Fagan, Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture, Yale University Press, 1990.

Fagan discusses several women...