Carolyn Lury Karcher '62    Bibliography

Shadow over the Promised Land.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. A detailed discussion of the racial views of Herman Melville, as they are reflected and developed in his works. 

The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Duke University Press, 1994. A synthesis of biographical, literary and political perspectives in a lively narrative.

A Lydia Maria Child Reader.  Duke University  Press, 1997.