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Born in May 8, 1753 / Died in December 5, 1784 / Senegal / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Bibliography

  • William H. Robinson, Phillis Wheatley: A Bio-Bibliography (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981).
  • Margaretta Matilda Odell, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Boston: Light, 1834).
  • B. B. Thatcher, Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, A Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light/New York: Moore & Payne, 1834).
  • Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Note on Wheatley, in Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions, edited by Brawley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935), pp. 31-55.
  • Brawley, Negro Builders and Heroes (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937).
  • Shirley Graham, The Story of Phillis Wheatley (New York: J. Messner, 1949).
  • Martha Bacon, Puritan Promenade (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964).
  • Sidney Kaplan, "Phillis Wheatley," in The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800 (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), pp. 150-170.
  • Merle A. Richmond, Bid the Vassal Soar: Interpretive Essays on the Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) and George Moses Horton (ca. 1799-1883) (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974).
  • Carl Bridenbaugh, "The First Published Poems of Phillis Wheatley," New England Quarterly, 42 (December 1969): 583-584.
  • Charles F. Heartman, Phillis Wheatley: A Critical Attempt and a Bibliography of Her Writings (New York: Printed for the author, 1915).
  • Mukhtar Ali Isani, "The British Reception of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects," Journal of Negro History, 66 (Summer 1981): 144-149.
  • Sarah Dunlap Jackson, "Letters of Phillis Wheatley and Susanna Wheatley," Journal of Negro History, 58 (April 1972): 212.
  • Robert C. Kuncio, "Some Unpublished Poems of Phillis Wheatley," New England Quarterly, 43 (June 1970): 287-297.
  • Thomas Oxley, "Survey of Negro Literature," Messenger: World's Greatest Negro Monthly, 60 (February 1927): 37-39.
  • Carole A. Parks, "Phillis Wheatley Comes Home," Black World, 23 (February 1974): 92-97.
  • Benjamin Quarles, "A Phillis Wheatley Letter," Journal of Negro History, 34 (October 1949): 462-466.
  • Gregory Rigsby, "Form and Content in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies," CLA Journal, 19 (December 1975): 248-257.
  • Rigsby, "Phillis Wheatley's Craft as Reflected in Her Revised Elegies," Journal of Negro Education, 47 (Fall 1978): 402-413.
  • William H. Robinson, Phillis Wheatley in the Black American Beginnings (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975).
  • Robinson, "Phillis Wheatley in London," CLA Journal, 21 (December 1977): 187-201.
  • Robinson, ed., Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982).
  • Charles Scruggs, "Phillis Wheatley and the Poetical Legacy of Eighteenth Century England," Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, 10 (1981): 279-295.
  • John C. Shields, "Phillis Wheatley and Mather Byles: A Study in Literary Relationship," CLA Journal, 23 (June 1980): 391-398.
  • Shields, "Phillis Wheatley's Use of Classicism," American Literature, 52 (March 1980): 97-111.
  • Kenneth Silverman, "Four New Letters by Phillis Wheatley," Early American Literature, 8 (Winter 1974): 257-271.
  • Albertha Sistrunk, "Phillis Wheatley: An Eighteenth-Century Black American Poet Revisited," CLA Journal, 23 (June 1980): 391-398.
  • Original manuscripts, letters, and first editions are in collections at the Boston Public Library; Duke University Library; Massachusetts Historical Society; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Library Company of Philadelphia; American Antiquarian Society; Houghton Library, Harvard University; The Schomburg Collection, New York City; Churchill College, Cambridge; The Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh; Dartmouth College Library; William Salt Library, Staffordshire, England; Cheshunt Foundation, Cambridge University; British Library, London.