Literary History of Patchogue
Literary History of Patchogue, NY
-- King, George S.
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- King, George S. Doctor on a Bicycle. New York: Rinehart, 1958.
- King, George S. Last Slaver. New York: Putnam, 1933. -- The Wanderer
-- McGonigle, Thomas
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- McGonigle, Thomas. Going to Patchogue: A Novel. Elwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992.
-- Overton, Frank B., 1867-19?? [Physician, Author of standard college medical
textbooks; early Trustee of Patchogue Library]
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- General Hygiene / Frank B. Overton. New York: American Book Co., 1913
- Personal Hygiene / Frank B. Overton. Nerw York: American Book Co., 1913
- The Health Officer / Frank B. Overton and Willard J. Denno. Philadelphia; London: W.B. Saunders Co., 1919
- The Congregational Church of Patchogue, N.Y.: A History; Prepared for the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Church on January 14, 1793, by Frank Overton. Amityville, NY: Long Island Forum, 1943
-- Overton, Grant Martin, 1887-1930 [Novelist]
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- The Women Who Make Our Novels / George Martin Overton. New York: Moffat Yard, 1918, repr. 1919
- The Answerer / Grant Martin Overton. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921
- American Nights Entertainment / Grant Martin Overton. New York: Appleton and Co., 1923
- Island of the Innocent / Grant Martin Overton. New York: George H. Doran, 1923
- Cargoes for Crusoes / Grant Martin Overton. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1924
- The Thousand and First Night / Grant Martin Overton. New York: George H. Doran, 1924
- An Hour of the American Novel / Grant Martin Overton. Philadelphia; London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1929
--- Porter, Sylvia Feldman, 1913-1991
- Sylvia Porter (Wikipedia)
--- Roberts, Betsey Ann Smith [acid-penned (vitriolic) poet; one
of Patchogue's "Four Sisters"]
- Original Poems, 2nd ed., by Betsey Ann Smith Roberts [Patchogue, NY:] Patchogue Advance Print, 1894 (Internet Archive)
- What an Old Horse Said, by Betsey Ann Smith Roberts. Patchogue, NY: Printed at the Office of the "Advance", 1876 (Internet Archive)
--- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince), 1806-1893
[wife of Seba Smith, nationally-reknowned American author, poet,
lecturer, abolitionist, early womens suffragist, arrived in Patchogue,
1860, moved to Blue Point, NY, Beaufort, NC, d.1893, eventually
buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Patchogue]
---- General
- Biography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Poet, Activist, and Lecturer (Suite101.com)
- Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith (Wikipedia)
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) (Northeastern Illinois University) - excellent site
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) (Portraits of American Women Writers, That Appeared in Print Before 1861)
---- Bibliography
- Elizabeth (Prince) Oakes Smith: Literary Grande Dame of Patchogue, NY, 1860-ca. 1875: A Selected Bibliography (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
---- Collections
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith Collection, 1842-2006 (University of New England. Maine Women Writers Collection [MWWC])
---- Chronology
- Chronology (Elizabeth Oakes [Prince] Smith, [1806-1893])
---- Edgar Allen Poe, Death of
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith: "She Sent an Emissary to Enforce the Delivery...He was Cruelly Beaten..." (Scarriet.wordpress.com)
---- Family & Portraits
- A Gallery of Images (Northeastern Illinois University. Elizabeth Oaks Smith)
---- Gravesite (Current)
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Find-a-Grave)
- Gravesite of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Northeatern Illinois University)
---- History - Civil War, 1861-1865
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Writer and Women's Rights Activist (Civil War Women Blog)
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Life in Patchogue During the Civil War, by Lauren Elizabeth Christie (Dude, Where am I?, March 12, 2011)
---- Literary Criticism
- Links to Selected Criticism on the Life and Work of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Northeastern Illinois University)
---- Novels & Dime-Novels
- Riches Without Wings, Or, the Cleveland Family, by Mrs. Seba [Elizabeth Oakes] Smith (1839) (Google Books; Internet Archive)
- The Western Captive, or The Times of Tecumseh [The New World, 2(3-4) October 1842] (Internet Archive)
- The May Flower for M DCCC XLVIII, ed. by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1848) (Internet Archive) - interesting as the year of the democratic revolts in Europe and end of the end of the U.S.-Mexican War
- The Newsboy, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive)
- Bertha and Lily; Or, the Parsonage of Beech Glen, A Romance, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive)
---- Poetry
- Annihilation (Poetry Archive)
- The Drowned Mariner (Bartleby.com)
- The Sinless Child, and Other Poems, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith, ed. by John Keese (1843) (Internet Archive)
- The Unattained [1843] (Poetry Archive)
- Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 2nd ed. (1846) (Internet Archive)
---- Quotations
---- Women's Rights and Women's Suffrage
- Performing Womanhood: The Lyceum Lectures of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, by Angela G. Ray (Northeastern Illinois University)
- Woman and Her Needs (1851) [serialized articles in the New York Tribune] )Northeastern Illinois University)
---- PML Catalog Sampler:
See also L.I. - Patchogue - Biography - Oakes Smith, Elizabeth
vertical file
- Gombieski, Jane S. and Mallory Leoniak. To Get the Vote: Woman Suffrage Leaders in Suffolk County
- Richards, Wynola L. A Review of the Life and Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Feminist, Author, and Lecturer, 1806-1893
- Oakes (Prince) Smith, Elizabeth. Selections from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith / ed. by Mary Alice Wyman
- Tarzia, Ann. Elizabeth Oakes Smith: A Woman Not of Her Time
- Two American Pioneers: Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith / by Mary Alice Wyman, Ph.D., Submitted in Partial Pulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University (1927)
--- Smith, Seba, 1792-1868 [husband of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, nationally
-reknowned American political humorist, arrived in Patchogue,
1860, d. 1868, eventually buried in Lakeview Cemetery,
Patchogue]
---- General
- Seba Smith (Wikipedia)
- "Seba Smith" [search results] (Internet Archive)
---- Gravesite
- Seba Smith's Weathered Tombstone, Lake View Cemetery, Patchogue, NY (PML. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
---- Works
- The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, by Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1834) (Internet Archive) - This book established Smith as dean of the faux-folksy style of American political humor, in whose tradition or footsteps, Artemus War, Finley Peter Dunne, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Will Rogers, and perhaps Bob Hope would follow.
- Powhatan; A Metrical Romance, in Seven Cantos, by Seba Smith (1841) (Internet Archive)
- Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century; Gathered and Preserved in Their Brightness and Purity, by Seba Smith (1846) (Internet Archive)
- New Elements of Geometry, by Seba Smith (1850) (Internet Archive) - a serious interest, for many years a standard textbook
- My Thirty Years Out of the Senate, by Major Jack Downing [comic alias of Seba Smith] (1859) (Internet Archive)
- Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1864) (Internet Archive) - actually ed. by his son, while Seba Smith was living in Patchogue. Most of the "letters" had originally been penned decades earlier.
---- PML Catalog Sampler:
See also L.I. - Patchogue - Biography - Smith, Seba vertical file
- Two American Pioneers: Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith / by Mary Alice Wyman, Ph.D., Submitted in Partial Pulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University (1927)
»
