The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Beauchamp, Virginia Walcott, ed. A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862-1867. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Donovan, Grace. "An American Catholic in Victorian England: Louisa, Duchess of Leeds, and the Carroll Family Benefice." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 223-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County
Donovan, Grace E. "The Caton Sisters: The Carrolls of Carrollton Two Generations Later." U.S. Catholic Historian 5, Issue 3-4 (1986): 291-303.
Categories: Religion, Women, Carroll County
Hardy, Beatriz Betancourt. "Women and the Catholic Church in Maryland, 1689-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Winter 1999): 396-418.
Notes: A comparison of the experiences of two Catholic colonial women - Jane Doyne, an elite woman from the lower Western Shore, and Jenny, an enslaved woman on the Eastern Shore. Roman Catholicism was a significant part of their lives, and as women they served an important role in maintaining and transmitting the Catholic faith. However, their different status had an impact on their religious experiences.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Helmes, Winifred G., ed. Notable Maryland Women. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers and the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1977.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Keisman, Jennifer. "The Platers and Sotterley." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Winter 1995): 81-91.
Categories: General, African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Kelly, Richard M. "The Maryland Ancestors of Rachel Wells." Southern Friend 16 (Spring-Autumn 1994): 35-63.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Women, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County
Kessler, Barry. Daughter of Zion: Henrietta Szold & American Jewish Womanhood. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Henrietta Szold and the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore." Generations (Fall 1996): 14-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Henrietta Szold in Church Stained Glass." Generations (Fall 1996): 16.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
McNeil, Betty Ann, D.C., ed. "The Journal of Mother Rose White: The Earliest History of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's Emmitsburg, Maryland." Vincentian Heritage 18 (1997): 19-56.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Frederick County
Mannard, Joseph Gerard. Maternity of the Spirit:' Women Religious in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1989.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Maryland Commission for Women. Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. Annapolis: The Commission, 1992.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Maryland State Department of Education. Maryland Commission for Women. Album of Maryland Women, Vision and Action: A Women's History Display Kit. Baltimore: The Department, 1991.
Categories: General, Women, Twentieth Century
Metz, Judith, S.C., and Regina Bechtle, S.C. "An Annotated List of the Writings of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton." Vincentian Heritage 18 (1997): 101-38.
Meyers, Debra A. Religion, Women and the Family in Maryland, 1634-1713. Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, 1997.
Notes: Explores the mentality of seventeenth century Maryland women by studying over 5,000 wills, which give expression to beliefs about property, relationships, gender roles, and religion. Meyer found that religious beliefs affected the values and behavior of colonial Marylanders. For example, Calvinists viewed women as subordinates and Free Will Christians considered women as trusted peers. Religion is a "crucial variable" in understanding early modern societies.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
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
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
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Who's Who of Maryland Women 1930-1976. N.p.: Maryland Division American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century
Shargel, Baila R. Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Silverman, Sharon H. "In the Footsteps of a Saint." Maryland 27 (February 1995): 33-37.
Categories: Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Tallent, Kathleen O'Donnell. The Stained Glass Ceiling: The Development of Women Pastoral Associates in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Ph.D. diss., Lancaster Theological Seminary, 1993.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Wolf, Samuel. "Bessie Meets Boris Thomashefsky in Baltimore." Generations (Summer 1991): 4-8.
Categories: Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Baltimore City
Yewell, Therese C. Women of Achievement in Prince George's County History. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County Planning Board, 1994.
Notes: This is a model of how to present biographical portraits. The biographies of these Prince George's County women are arranged in chronological order. Each chapter begins with an historical narrative that places the biographies in context.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Politics and Law, Religion, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County