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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Coryell, Janet L. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1986.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Larkin Rodolphus Shipley: Northern Anne Arundel County Farmer-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 3-4, 14-15; "Part II-Crisis and Recovery." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (October 1998): 5-6, 11-12.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Recollections of James W. Shipley: Growing Up on the I. L. Shipley Brothers Farm-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 3, 13-16; Part II, 26 (July 1995): 5, 10-13.

Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.

Dubansky, Mindell. Guess Who Died?: Memories of Baltimore with Recipes. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 1999.

Earle, W. H. "The Phantom Amendment and the Duchess of Baltimore." American History Illustrated 22 (November 1987): 32-39.
Notes: Jerome Bonaparte's American wife.

Frasseto, Claude B. Betsy Bonaparte, ou la Belle de Baltimore. [France]: J.C. Lattes, 1988.

George, Joseph. "'A True Childe of Sorrow': Two Letters of Mary E. Surratt." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 402-405.

Helmes, Winifred G., ed. Notable Maryland Women. Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.
Notes: Short profiles of 100 Maryland women who achieved prominence in various fields. Although the focus is on 20th century figures, Maryland women from earlier eras are also featured. A good source for information on many lesser-known Maryland women whose stories have not yet been told. Readers interested in notable women from the early decades of the 20th century may wish to consult Margie H. Luckett's <em>Maryland Women</em> published in three volumes between 1931 and 1942.

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Kravetz, Sallie. Ethel Ennis, the Reluctant Jazz Star: An Illustrated Biography. Baltimore: Gateway Press/Hughes Enterprises, 1984.

LeoGrande, William M. "'No Gain': Portrait of a Family Farm." Montgomery County Story 42 (May 1999): 77-88.

Levin, Alexandra Lee. Henrietta Szold: Baltimorean. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.

Martin, Ralph G. The Woman He Loved: The Story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Pons, Josh. Country Life Diary: Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm. Second edition, Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, Inc., 1999.

Simpson, William E. "Alexius Lancaster, 1794-1856: Farm Life in Southern Maryland Circa 1818-1856, Preamble." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Spring 1995): 120.

Sines, Taylor. "Walt Whitehair-Lifelong Cattle Dealer." Glades Star 9 (June 1999): 70-72.

Sollins, Helen Burman. "Eleanor Septima Cohen." Generations 5 (June 1984): 19-27.

Turnbull, Pauline, ed. May Lansfield Keller: Life and Letters. Verona, VA: The McClure Press, 1975. [1877-1964].

Turner, Charles W., ed. "A Virginia Small Farmer's Life after the Civil War." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1955): 286-305.

Zseleczky, James Waters. "Anne Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Wife of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore (1579-1622)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 22 (September 1974): 397-99.

Adams, E. J. "Religion and Freedom: Artifacts Indicate that African Culture Persisted Even in Slavery." Omni 16 (November 1993): 8.

Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. Family Resemblances: Zora Neale Hurston's Anthropological Heritage. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1997.

Baugh, Joyce A. "Justice Thurgood Marshall: Advocate for Gender Justice." Western Journal of Black Studies 20 (Winter 1996): 195-206.

Beckles, Frances N. 20 Black Women: A Profile of Contemporary Black Maryland Women. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1978.

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