Works by
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
(Journalist, Poet)
[1875 - 1935]

• Violets and Other Tales (1895)

• Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro From the Days of Slavery to the Present Time (1914)

• The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories (1969)
  At this particular picnic, however, there had been bitterness of spirit. Theophile was Manuela's own especial property, and Theophile had proven false. He had not danced a single waltz or quadrille with Manuela, but had deserted her for Claralie, blonde and petite. It was Claralie whom Theophile had rowed out on the lake; it was Claralie whom Theophile had gallantly led to dinner.

• An Alice Dunbar-Nelson Reader (1979)

• The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: The Poet and His Song (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) (1996)

• Laughing to Stop Myself From Crying (2003)
  Life among the Creoloe community in New Orleans is a gumbo mix of tropical heat, romance and petty squabbles tied to long forgottoen historical feuds, which fill the pages of this entertaining novel.

• A Carnival Jungle (2004)

• By The Boyou of St. John (2004)

• Juanita, La (2004)

• Little Miss Sophie (2004)

• Mr.Baptiste (2004)

• M'sieu Fortier's Violin (2004)

• Odalie (2004)

• Sister Josepha (2004)

• The Fisherman Of Pass Christian (2004)

• The Goodness of Saint Rocque (2004)

See also:

• Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar Nelson (1985), Gloria T. Hull, ed.

• Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1987), Gloria T. Hull, ed.

• The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1 (1988), Gloria Hull, ed.
  Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers. A testament to the nineteenth century as birthplace for black woman writers, The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson offers insight into the themes of oppression and intolarance, often considered dangerous or ignored in the nineteenth century, but now pervade much writing today. Themes such as crossing racial boundaries, infused with Dunbar-Nelson's autobiographical fervor

• Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Great American Short Stories III (1995) by C. D. Buchanan with James Balkovek, Illustrator

• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore (2001) by Eleanor Alexander
  Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No").
  
  This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.