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"Southern Children's Literature" chapter in The Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U.S. South

Eds. Katharine Burnett, Todd Hastette, and Monica Miller. Routledge, 2022.

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Eds. Carolyn Brown, Ellen Ruffin, and Eric Tribunella. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.

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The Architecture of Girlhood: Building Gendered Spaces in Louisa Tuthill’s Reality: Or, the Millionaire’s Daughter

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Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018

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--Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners

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