Elia W. Peattie: Selected Bibliography

By Susanne George Bloomfield and Judy Boss

• The Story of America, Containing the Romantic Incidents of History, From the Discovery of America to the Present Time. Chicago: R. S. King, 1889; Chicago: Mid-continent Pub. Co., 1891, 1892; Cleveland: Neff, 1893.
• A Journey Through Wonderland; or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska, with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad. Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1890.
• The Judge. Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1890, 1891.

  Reviewed in: Chicago Tribune (3 Feb. 1901): 34.

• With Scrip and Staff; A Tale of the Children's Crusade. New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1891.
• The American Peasant, A Timely Allegory. By T. H. Tibbles and another [Mrs. E. W. Peattie]. Indianapolis: Vincent Bros. Publishing Company, 1892, 1900.
• A Mountain Woman. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1896; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1969.

  Includes: "A Mountain Woman," "Jim Lancy's Waterloo," "The Three Johns," "A Resuscitation," "The Two Pioneers," "Up the Gulch," "A Michigan Man," and "A Lady of Yesterday."

  Reviewed in: The Bookman 3 (July 1896): 460; Chicago Tribune (6 June 1896): 10; Critic 29 (8 Aug. 1896): 88; The Dial 22 (1 Jan. 1897): 23; The Nation 63 (10 Sept. 1896): 201.

• The Pictorial Story of America Containing the Romantic Incidents of History from the Discovery of America to the Present Time. Chicago: American Publishing and Engraving, 1895; Union publishing, 1896; National Publishing, 1896; Tombaugh Publications, 1982.
• Our Chosen Land. A Romantic Story of America from the Time of Its Discovery and Conquest to the Present Day. Chicago: Wabash Publishing House, 1896; Chicago: National Publishing Co., 1896; Chicago: American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1897. [An abridgement of The Story of America]
• Pictorial Story of America: Part 3 Fulton County, Indiana. Chicago: National Publishing, 1896.
• Pippins and Cheese; Being the Relation of How a Number of Persons Ate a Number of Dinners at Various Times and Places. Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897.

  Includes: "Dinner for Two," "The Price of a Dinner," "At Luncheon," "The Princess Dines," "The Stop Gap," "Covers for Twelve," "A Diminuendo," "The Blood Apple," and "A Mess of Pottage."

  Reviewed in: Chicago Tribune (25 Dec. 1897): 10.

• America in Peace and War. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1898
• The Love of a Caliban; A Romantic Opera in One Act. Wausau, WI: Van Vechten & Ellis, 1898; 1980; 1986.
• The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales. New York: Macmillan, 1898; 1899; 1904; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1969.

  Includes: "The Shape of Fear," "On the Northern Ice," "Their Dear Little Ghost," "A Spectral Collie," "The House That Was Not," "The Story of an Obstinate Corpse," "A Child of the Rain," "The Room of the Evil Thought," "The Story of the Vanishing Patient," "The Piano Next Door," "An Astral Onion," "From the Loom of the Dead," and "A Grammatical Ghost."

  Reviewed in: Atlantic Monthly 83 (Feb. 1899): 287-288; The Bookman 8 (Jan. 1899): 492; Reader (1904): 455; The Spectator.

• 'Ickery Ann and Other Girls and Boys. Chicago: H. S. Stone, 1899.

  Includes: "'Ickery Ann," "The Genius," "Grizel Cochrane's Ride," "Bertha's Debut," "The Shut-Ins," "The Message of the Lilies," "The McCulloughs of the Bluff," "Tarts," "Jock, the Chipmunk," "How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats," "Christmas at Goldberg," "The Dead Letter," "The Wooing of Fan Tod," "The Breeziest Reunion," and "Tommy, the Beach Cat."

• The Beleaguered Forest. New York: D. Appleton, 1901.

  Reviewed in: Critic 24 (Sept. 1901): 263.

• How Jacques Came into the Forest of Arden: An Impertinence. Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1901.

  Reviewed in: Critic

• Poems You Ought to Know, Selected by E. W. Peattie. Chicago: Jamieson-Higgins, 1902; Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1903; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1969; Granger Book Co., 1978. [Reprinted from the Chicago Tribune.]

  Reviewed in: Critic.

• Castle, Knight & Troubadour, in an Apology and Three Tableaux. Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1903.
• Castle, Knight & Troubadour, in an Apology and Three Tableaux. 2nd ed. Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1903.
• The Edge of Things. Chicago: F. H. Revell, 1903.
• To Comfort You; Poems of Comfort, Selected by Elia W. Peattie. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1903.
• Annie Laurie and Azalea. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1911.
• The Book of the Fine Arts Building. [n.p.]: 1911.
• Edda and the Oak. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1911.

  Reviewed in: Literary Digest 43 (2 Dec. 1911): 43; New York Times 16 (3 Dec. 1911): 805.

• Azalea; The Story of a Girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1912.

  Reviewed in: Nation 95 (21 Nov. 1912): 484; New York Times 17 (8 Sept. 1912): 491..

• Azalea at Sunset Gap. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1912, 1914.
• The Precipice; A Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914; Urbana: U of Illinois, 1989.
• The Angel with a Broom. Chicago: R. F. Seymour, for the Cordon, 1915.
• Azalea's Silver Web. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1915.
• Lotta Embury's Career. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915.

  Reviewed in: Bookman 42 (Jan. 1916): 596; Independent 84 (20 Dec. 1915): 483; Springfield Republican (13 Dec. 1915): 13.

• Sarah Brewster's Relatives. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.

  Reviewed in: Bookman 44 (Dec. 1916): 408; Dial 61 (14 Dec. 1916): 547; Literary Digest 53 (9 Dec. 1916): 1566; New York Times 21 (24 Dec. 1916): 566.

• The Newcomers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.
• Painted Windows. New York: George H. Doran, 1918.
• Times and Manners: A Pageant. Chicago: Chicago Woman's Club, 1918.
• The Wander Weed, and Seven Other Little Theater Plays. Chicago: C. H. Sergel and Company, 1923.
• Massimilliano, the Court Jester. 1925, 1926.
• Songs from a Southern Garden. Tryon, NC: Pacolet, 1930.

  Includes: "Lanier in the Valley," "Easter Greetings," "These Be the Mountains That Comfort Me," "The Two Griefs," "In the Cool of the Day," "The Garden Pool," "To Barbara," "January Jasmine," "Query," "Wood Smoke," "Little Brides of Tryon," "The Hester Bank," "Christmas Candles," "To You, Unforgotten," "Betty in the Fig Tree," "Autumn Twilight," "Contentment," and "Ole Jacob's Turkey."

• The Great Delusion, a Drama in One Act. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1932.
• History of Gibson County, Indiana. Owensboro, KY: Cook & McDowell, 1979, 1980.

• "Grizel Cochrane's Ride." Saint Nicholas 14 (Feb. 1887): 271-278.
• "The Crime of Micah Rood." Cosmopolitan 4 (Jan. 1888): 383-389.
• "Bertha's Debut." Saint Nicholas 17 (Jan. 1890): 217-221.
• "Melany's Masterpiece." Harper's Weekly 35 (8 Aug. 1891): 593-595.
• "Mountain Woman." Harper's Weekly 35 (14 Nov. 1891): 889-896.
• "Resuscitation." Harper's Weekly 35 (13 June 1891): 441-442.
• "The Three Johns." Harper's Weekly 35 (26 Dec. 1891): 1037-1039.
• "In Husking-Time." Harper's Weekly 36 (15 Oct. 1892)993-994, 999.
• "Jim Lancy's Waterloo." Cosmopolitan 17 (June 1894): 211-220.
• "After the Storm: A Story of the Prairie." Atlantic Monthly 80 (Sept. 1897): 393-405.
• "The McCulloughs of the Bluff." Youth's Companion (16 June 1898): 285-286.
• "Message of the Lilies." Youth's Companion (7 April 1898): 161-162.
• "Tarts." Youth's Companion (21 April 1898): 191.
• "Their Dear Little Ghost." Outlook 60 (29 Oct. 1898): 530-532.
• "House of the Golden Song." Harper's Bazaar 32 (9 Dec. 1899): 1056-1057.
• "The Man at the Edge of Things." Atlantic Monthly 84 (Sept. 1899): 321-342.
• "The Utilization of Uncle Reginald." Youth's Companion (25 May 1899): 262.
• "At Aunt Frank's Service." Youth's Companion (1 Feb. 1900): 49.
• "The Family He Found." Youth's Companion (25 Jan. 1900): 37.
• "Greater Love Than This." Harper's Bazaar 33 (26 May-2 June 1900): 268-277.
• "Rubaiyat and the Liner." Harper's Bazaar 33 (29 Sept. 1900): 1360-1366.
• "True Hospitality." Youth's Companion (19 April 1900): 215.
• "The Esmeralda Herders." Atlantic Monthly 87 (Jan. 1901): 111-117.
• "Some Odd Figurines." Youth's Companion (10 Oct. 1901): 491.
• "Wan Tsze-King." Youth's Companion (2 May 1901): 229-230.
• "Barbara's Valentine." Youth's Companion (13 Feb. 1902): 76.
• "Grandmother's Fete." Youth's Companion (2 Oct. 1902): 470.
• "Mozart: A Fantasy." Atlantic Monthly 90 (Nov. 1902): 634-636.
• "A Declaration of Independence." Youth's Companion (10 Dec. 1903): 619.
• "Ged." Scribner's 34 (Nov. 1903): 580-594.
• "Thorkild Viborg." Atlantic Monthly 91 (1903): 228-235.
• "Tapestry." Youth's Companion (18 June 1903): 293.
• "Wilderness Station." Munsey's Magazine 29 (May 1903): 272-275.
• "At Dr. Merriwether's Service." Youth's Companion (11 Aug. 1904): 374.
• "Kenyon's Bride." Youth's Companion (7 Jan. 1904): 1.
• "Ill-Regulated Courtship." Harper's Bazaar 38 (Mar. 1904): 252-261.
• "Old Kaskaskia." Youth's Companion (21 April 1904): 196.
• "The Stagecoach." Atlantic Monthly 93 (May 1904): 787-796.
• "The Truth and the Lady." Reader 5 (Dec. 1904): 86-89.
• "The Fourth Chaperone." Youth's Companion (28 Sept. 1905): 448.
• "A Madonna of the Desert." Harper's Monthly 111 (Sept. 1905): 507-518.
• "The Door." Reader 7 (Jan. 1906): 168-176.
• "The Last Sedan-Chair." Youth's Companion (22 Feb. 1906): 85.
• "Cupid and the Hurdy-Gurdy." Harper's Bazaar 41 (July 1907): 636-642.
• "Shehens' Houn' Dogs." Reader 10 (June 1907): 73-84.
• "Bundle of Life." Collier's 45 (7 May 1910): 20-21.
• "Friends of the Family." Good Housekeeping 50 (Feb. 1910): 179-187.
• "Outlaw." Collier's 44 (5 Mar. 1910): 28-29.
• "Love and Death." Harper's Bazaar 45 (Sept. 1911): 408-409.
• "In Memoriam." Youth's Companion (30 May 1912): 281.
• "A Singing Bird." Youth's Companion (20 June 1912): 331.
• "The Color Bearers." Youth's Companion 17 Sept. 1914): 477.
• "The Home Road." Youth's Companion (26 Aug. 1915): 429-430.
• "The Disgrace of Grandfather." Youth's Companion (7 Sept. 1916): 492.
• "The Mean Little Town." [serial] Youth's Companion (5 Oct. 1916: 541-7 Dec. 1916: 700.
• "Dressmaking." Youth's Companion (5 July 1917): 377.
• "The Lion Light." Youth's Companion (1 Nov. 1917): 621.
• "The Pageant." Youth's Companion (2 Aug. 1917): 430.
• "Cap'n Patti." Lippincott's 53: 523.
• "Dinner for Two." American 7
• "Michigan Man." Lippincott's 47
• "The Place of Dragons." Everybody's 8
• "The Sandwich Man." American 8

• "On a Blank Leaf in 'The Marble Faun.'" Century Magazine 42 (Oct. 1891): 847.
• "Interruption." Harper's Monthly 79 (Feb. 1897): 257.
• "Love's Delay." Atlantic Monthly 79 (Feb. 1897): 257.
• "Star 'i' the Darkest Night." Munsey's Magazine 24 (Nov. 1900): 285.
• "Virgin Hearth." Woman's Home Companion 33 (Jan. 1906): 11.
• "Trinity." Current Literature 47 (Aug. 1909): 217-218.
• "Compensations." Harper's Bazaar 44 (Sept. 1910): 538.
• "Lanier in the Valley." Scribner's Monthly 72 (Nov. 1922): 625.

• "The Artistic Side of Chicago." Atlantic Monthly 84 (Dec. 1899): 828-834.
• "A Defence of Fine Writing." The Critic 42 (June 1903): 546-547.
• "Women of the Hour." Harper's Bazaar 38 (Oct. 1904): 1003-1008.
• "Child Studies by Chicago Sculptors." Good Housekeeping 49 (Oct. 1909): 415-420.
• "Churches of Old London." Harper's Bazaar 44 (Jan. 1910): 16-17.
• "One's Self; A Dissertation for the Middle-Aged Woman." Harper's Bazaar 44 (July 1910): 437-439.
• "The Woman's Notebook of Events." Delineator 76 (Dec. 1910): 510.
• "The Fine Arts Building in Chicago." International Studio 43 (April 1911): sup. 44-46.
• "Wren's Little Steeples." Harper's Bazaar 45 (June 1911): 18-20.
• "Your Wife's Pocketbook." Delineator 77 (June 1911): 466.

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