The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Mitchell, Helen B. 'The North and South are Here Met': Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps and the Patapsco Female Institute, 1841-1856. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1990.
Notes: As director of Maryland's Patapsco Female Institute, Phelps expanded the role of women in the nineteenth century. Phelps believed that women were responsible for their own lives, not mere satellites of men. Thus, an equal education prepared women for economic self-support while remaining within the domestic sphere. Like Phelps, women could have a home, family, and career without challenging slavery, the domestic sphere, or patriarchal control.
Morris, Anne F., and Jean B. Russo, eds. "Polly Tilghman's Plight: A True Tale of Romance and Reputation in the 18th Century." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 464-79.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Mumford, Vincent Edward. Teams on Paper: Title IX Compliance in the Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference. Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, 1998.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Murphy, John H. "Little Miss Sure Shot's Sojourn in Cambridge." Maryland 13 (Winter 1980): 6-9.
Notes: Annie Oakley.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Murray, Irene J. "Henrietta Liston in America." Virginia Cavalcade 14 (1964): 28-33.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Women, Eighteenth Century
Mylander, Alison Ellicott. "The Ellicotts: Women's Status in the Family." Heritage 14 (December 1987): 1-2, 4.
Nabit, Charles J. "Looming Success." Maryland 28 (May/June 1996): 32-37, 62.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Women, Twentieth Century
"Nancy Hanks Birthplace." Glades Star 6 (September 1990): 440-43.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Neal, Harry Edward. "Margaret Brent, Gentleman." Maryland Magazine 14 (Winter 1982): 31-32.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Women, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Norton, Mary Beth. "Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. series, 44 (January 1987): 3-39.
Notes: Examines 145 defamation suits - over half cases involved women as litigants or witnesses - to assess the basic values of seventeenth-century Marylanders. Both men and married women used the courts to respond to gossip and public accusations that threatened their reputations. Their focus was trustworthiness, but for different reasons. A man's word was central to economic interactions with other men, and to attain a wife he had to be a decent man (cheats and scoundrels need not apply). Charging a single woman with fornification caused no irrepairable damaged, but a married woman had to "retain her husband's good will" to keep her social status.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century
Novash, Paula. "Mrs. Calvert's Reading Pleasure." Riversdale Letter 17 (Spring 1999): 2-4.
Categories: Women, Prince George's County
Olson, Karen Faith. When a Woman Has a Working Life: The Transformation of Gender Relations in a Steelmaking Community. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.
Notes: Captures the social world of steelworkers' wives in Dundalk, Maryland, through sixty interviews. A planned industrial community from the 1880s, steel dominated life in Dundalk. Male work culture, swing shifts, and high wages served company needs and kept women out of the paid labor force. A decline in steelmaking forced women to "get a working life," which has altered role expectations and gender relations in that community. Class bias and racial divisions are also factors in this transformation.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Parsons, Jean Louise. Dressmakers: Transitions in the Urban Production of Custom-Made Clothing, 1880-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1998.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Pearson, Jenny. "Sara Haardt Mencken: Southern and Feminist Writer." Menckeniana 133 (Spring 1995): 10-14.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Phipps, Sheila Rae. 'I Feel Quite Independent Now': The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Porges, Ida. "Remembering My Mother: Portrait of a Rebbetzin." American Jewish History 83 (1995): 331-36.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Primus, Rebecca. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters of Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Nineteenth Century, Talbot County
"Profile of Ruth Sneider." Maryland Humanities (October/November 1993): 11.
Quinn, Joan K., ed. "Keep a Letter in Hand: School Days at Cedar Park, 1830-1833." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Summer 1996): 211-23.
Categories: Education, Women, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Randall, Laura. "Hoopla and Quiet Times." Annapolis 7 (November 1993): 24-27.
Notes: Susan O'Malley.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Reilly, Mary, Sister. Women of Courage. Hyattsville, MD: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Requardt, Cynthia H., ed. "The Origins of Jewish Women's Social Service Work in Baltimore." Generations 5 (June 1984): 28-64.
Categories: Ethnic History, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Riggs, Cynthia. "Tenders of Fishing Creek." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (May 1989): 48-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Roberts, Anne Carter Bowie. "Queen Anne's Life." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 25 (February 1997): [5-6].
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Robson, Nancy Taylor. Woman in the Wheelhouse. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1985.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Maritime, Women, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region