Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers Processed by Tim Murray BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. Alice DunbarNelson was born on July 19, 1875, as Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, Louisiana. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice DunbarNelson (1875-1935) About Alice Dunbar-Nelson On "I Sit and I Sew" A Dunbar-Nelson Chronology Essays by Dunbar-Nelson About http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
American Literature - Lit 112B - Alice Ruth Moore A.k.a. Alice Alice DunbarNelson (1875-1935) An essay which includes, major themes, historical perspectives, and personal issues in Dunbar-Nelson's writing. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Masterpieces Of Negro Eloquence (in VSCCAT) Title Masterpieces of negro eloquence; Author Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar, 18751935. Published New York, Bookery Pub. c1914; http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935. (in MARION) Laurence, Mrs., 18751935 Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar, 1875- Dunbar, Alice, 1875-1935 Dunbar, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 Dunbar-Nelson http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
PAL Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Chapter 5 Late Nineteenth Century Alice (Ruth Moore) DunbarNelson (1875-1935) Outside Links Modern American Poetry AD-N AD-N Papers http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Women Of Color Women Of Word African American Female 4(1)5161. "works by and about Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson; A Bibliography." Ora Williams. CLA Journal . 19322-326. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Paul Laurence Dunbar Autograph letter signed, to Alice Ruth Moore. Indianapolis, May 23, 1895. Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (18751935) was born and educated in New Orleans, http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/dunbar.html
Extractions: Autograph letter signed, to Alice Ruth Moore. Indianapolis, May 23, 1895. 4 pages. Paul Laurence Dunbar was a poet, short story writer, novelist, writer of articles and dramatic sketches, plays, and lyrics for musical compositions. He is most noted for his highly skilled and graceful use of Afro-American themes and dialects. Born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of a slave, he went to Chicago in 1893 to work at the World's Columbian Exposition, for which he wrote The Columbian Ode" in commemoration. His overnight fame as a poet came after William Dean Howells reviewed Dunbar's volume of verse, Majors and Minors , published in 1895. Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) was born and educated in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nelson became a poet and a pioneer in the black short story tradition, and devoted her later life to education, journalism and political and social activism. After her graduation from Straight College in New Orleans, Nelson taught in the public school system of that city until 1895, and began to submit poetry to the Boston Monthly Review . The young, struggling poet, Dunbar, took notice of one of these poems, along with an accompanying photograph of the poetess, and wrote to Nelson, then Alice Ruth Moore, raising literary issues. Thus became a lengthy series of correspondence in which they developed a friendship that led to their marriage in 1898 (they separated in 1902).
Extractions: AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, EDUCATOR Alice Moore was born in New Orleans of African American, Native American and Caucasian ancestry. She graduated from Straight College (now Dillard Uni versity) with an education degree in 1892. Three years later she published her first book, Violets and Other Tales, which was a mixture of short stories, poetry, sketches, etc., which would begin a multifaceted career as an author of many genres, including fiction, drama, and newspaper journalism. One of her several marriages was to the famed African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar with whom she published several works of fiction. Her work included themes of New Orleans and Creole life, and also frankly confronted the race problem and the issues of "passing" and the "color line". A portion of her Cornell University master's thesis on Milton and Wordsworth was published in the highly respected journal Modern Language Notes in 1909. She was widely published in journals, gave many speeches, and wrote newspaper columns for the Pittsburgh Courier and the Washington Eagle . Her greatest contribution to the field of Black women's literature is the diary she kept in the 1920s and 30s. Being one of only two full-length diaries written by nineteenth century Black women, it addresses areas of sexuality, family, health, work, and writing; it documents the existence of an active Black lesbian network and her relationships with several prominent women. (The other diary in existence is written by Charlotte Forten).
Literary Movements Timeline American Authors English 310/510 Alice Ruth Moore DunbarNelson (1875-1935). Nineteenth-Century American WomenWriters A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/dnelsonbib.html
Extractions: This page has moved to http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dnelsonbib.html, and you'll automatically be transferred to the new site in 5 seconds. Thank you for your patience during this transition to a new server. Bauer, Margaret D. "When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich." Critical Essays on Alice Walker . Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 45-54.
PAL: Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Chapter 5 Late Nineteenth Century Alice (Ruth Moore) DunbarNelson (1875-1935) Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. 3 vols. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/dunbar-nelson.html
Extractions: (Source: Alice Dunbar Nelson Top Primary Works Violets and Other Tales, E-Text The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. ed. Masterpieces of negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the negro from the days of slavery to the present time. NY: The Bookery Publishing Company. NY: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970. S663.N4 N4 1914a Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. 3 vols. Ed. Gloria T. Hull. NY: Oxford UP, 1988. PS3507 .U6228 1988 Top Selected Bibliography Bauer, Margaret D. "When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich." Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 45-54. Brooks, Kristina M. "Transgressing the Boundaries of Identity: Racial Pornography, Fallen Women, and Ethnic Others in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Edith Wharton."
Extractions: Bauer, Margaret D. When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich. Critical Essays on Alice Walker . Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Westport: Greenwood, 1999. 45-54. Brooks, Kristina. Between Love and Hate, Black and White: Narcissism and Double-Consciousness in the Diaries of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. A/B Bryan, Violet Harrington. Creating and Re-Creating the Myth of New Orleans: Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association . Race and Gender in the Early Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography . Ed. Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 122-38.
RFN Resources: Selected Harlem Renaissance Bibliographies Alice Ruth Moore DunbarNelson (1875-1935). The Pen Is Ours A Listing ofWritings by and about African-American Women before 1910 with Secondary http://www.fishernews.org/bibs.htm
Extractions: Selected Harlem Renaissance Bibliographies This list ( below ) constitutes an annotated list of published bibliographies for 25 individual Harlem Renaissance authors as well as the literary movement as a whole. Bibliographies cited include books as well as articles. (See the explanation below for more specific information about the list.) CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE VERSION OF THIS LIST Introduction The following annotated bibliography is intended to help readers identify what bibliographies are available, what their coverage includes, and, where applicable, how they compare to one another. While certainly this listing is a selected one, all of the significant bibliographies have been included below for as many authors as possible. (Over 75 bibliographies are identified, though not all items receive annotations.) For some of the lesser known Harlem Renaissance authors, bibliographies either do not exist or are too negligible to warrant inclusion herein. However, readers are encouraged to search for bibliographical resources for these authors in the general Harlem Renaissance bibliographies included at the bottom of the page.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Ruth Moore DunbarNelson (1875-1935) Author/Activist/Educator. Alice Dunbar-Nelsonwas born on July 19, 1875, as Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, http://www.femmenoir.net/Leaders-Legends/AliceNelson .htm
Extractions: Author/Activist/Educator Alice Dunbar-Nelson was born on July 19, 1875, as Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, Louisiana of African American, Native American and Caucasian ancestry. She attended public school in New Orleans and enrolled in a teacher's training program at Straight University (now Dillard University) in 1890. Upon receiving her degree in 1892, she began teaching in New Orleans. Three years later in 1895, Alice Ruth Moore published her first book, Violets and Other Tales, which was a mixture of short stories, poetry, sketches, etc., which would begin a multifaceted career as an author of many genres, including fiction, drama, and newspaper journalism. In 1897, Moore moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she taught at the White Rose Mission. At this time Moore began corresponding with the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and in March, 8, 1898, she married Dunbar and moved to Washington, D.C. The marriage lasted until 1902, when they were legally separated; Dunbar died on February 6, 1906. Following her separation from Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar moved to Wilmington, Delaware. She took a position as a teacher and administrator at Howard High School which she held until 1920. During this period she also directed the summer session for in-service teachers at State College for Colored Students (the predecessor of Delaware State College) in Dover, and taught two years in the summer session at the Hampton Institute. In 1907, she took a leave of absence from her teaching position in Wilmington and enrolled as a student at Cornell University, returning to Wilmington in 1908. In April, 1916, Alice Dunbar married Robert J. Nelson, a journalist, politician, and civil rights activist.
Extractions: Mine Eyes Have Seen BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Alice Ruth Moore was born on July 19, 1875 in New Orleans. Dunbar-Nelson graduated from a 2-year teacher training program at Straight College, now Dillard University. She later studied at Cornell University, Columbia University , and the University of Pennsylvania where she specialized in psychology and English educational testing. Throughout her life she taught in public schools. On March 6, 1898 she married the celebrated poet Paul Laurence Dunbar after a courtship by correspondence, and moved to Washington, DC. They seperated in 1902. The second of three marriages, she secretly married a fellow teacher, Henry Author Callis in 1910, but divorced a year later. Her final marriage, one which lasted until her death, was to Robert J. Nelson, a journalist, in 1916. Dunbar-Nelson, who was very light complexioned, often passed for white, and was sometimes frustrated in her relations with darker-skinned African Americans because of it. A complex woman who was a poet, journalist, playwright, and unpublished novelist, Alice engaged in intimate relationships with both men and women. The sonnet above was almost certainly written for one of her female lovers, Fay Jackson Robinson, a newspaperwoman and socialite whom Alice met during a trip California. During her life, Alice was a columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier and the Washington Eagle. From 1921 to 1931, Dunbar-Nelson kept a diary which chronicles her life and contains portraits of such friends and associates as Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Alice Dunbar-Nelson died on September 18, 1935 of heart failure.
Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureAlice Dunbar-Nelson - Author Page (18751935). The most striking feature of Alice Dunbar-Nelson s work is the way Jean-Marie Lutes, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson in Nineteenth-Century http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_ninet
Extractions: Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition The most striking feature of Alice Dunbar-Nelson's work is the way that it contrives to treat serious, even radical, social concerns while adhering on the surface to conventional forms and modes of expression. For her as for many other African American writers of her generation, race was a particularly vexed (and vexing) issueone which she skillfully elided in her life and writings. Dunbar-Nelson was personally acquainted with cultural ambiguity, being born of mixed African, Native American, and white ancestry into the Creole society of postbellum New Orleans. There she shone as a beautiful and promising young woman from whom much was expected. After her graduation from Straight College (now Dilliard University) in 1892 and four years teaching elementary school, she went north, where she continued her education and taught public and mission school in New York City. On March 8, 1898, after a storybook courtship, she married the famous black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Plagued from the beginning by temperamental clashes, her family's disapproval, and his medically related alcohol and drug addiction, the union did not last long. They separated in 1902, four years before Dunbar died. However brief, her relationship with him exposed her to the world of professional authorship.