"'A Ornament to Sassiety': Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Kate M. Cleary, Nineteenth-Century Western Humorists."
Over Here: A European Journal of American Culture Nottingham Trent University, England, published this article by Susanne K. George (Bloomfield) in their Winter 1997 (17.2: 99114) that compares the humor techniques imployed by these two turn-of-the century western authors.
"A Patchwork of Friends:The Female Community of Elinore Pruitt Stewart"
This article by Dr. Susanne K. George (Bloomfield), published in the Winter 1989 issue of the Platte Valley Review (17.1:51-59), analyzes how Stewart's personal letters provided her with a method of expressing her need for emotional support and for female ties.
"The Journeys of Elinore Pruitt Stewart"
Stewart's epistolary collections relied almost exclusively on the travel theme, and Dr. Susanne K. George's (Bloomfield), article, published in 1989 in The Nebraska Humanist (11:32-37), discusses her journeys of escape, home-founding, and exploration.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader.
This University of Michigan Modern English collection contains a searchable full text of Elinore Pruitt Stewart's 1914 book.
University of Nebraska Press
The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a biography by Susanne K. George (Bloomfield), is available through the University of Nebraska Press.
bloomfields@unk.edu