FulL-Length PubLISHED WORKS
Novels:
Riches Without Wings or, The Cleveland Family (Boston: G.W. Light, 1838).
The Western Captive, or The Times of Tecumseh: A Tale (New York: J. Winchester 1842). [Followed in September 1845 by an “illustration” of a passage from the novel in Graham’s Magaizine, an engraving by James Smillie (1807-1885) introduced here. A free copy of the original newspaper version is here, and Hathitrust has a better one here, but be warned, these editions will break your eyes. Better to purchase Caroline Woidat’s edition from Broadview (2015).]
The Salamander: A Legend for Christmas, found amongst the papers of the late Ernest Helfenstein, ed. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848). [Republished as Hugo: A Legend of Rockland Lake, found amongst the papers of the late Ernest Helfenstein, ed. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: J.S. Taylor, 1851). Republished as Mary and Hugo: or, The Lost Angel: A Christmas Legend, (New York: Derby and Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857).]
[“The Mystery of the Mountain” was republished in Hart, John S. The Female Prose Writers of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, And Specimens of Their Writings. (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler, 1851): 178-186.
The Newsboy (New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 1854).
Bertha and Lily, or The Parsonage of Beech Glen: A Romance (New York: J.C. Derby; Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1854).
Poetry Collection:
The Sinless Child and Other Poems (New York: Wiley and Putnam; Boston: W.D. Ticknor, 1843).
[Reviewed in Graham’s in June 1843.]
The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: J.S. Redfield, 1845).
“The Sinless Child” presented side-by-side: 1842, 1843, 1845 [providing scholars a view of a rare work where Oakes Smith had two opportunities for revision.]
Children’s Story Collections:
Rosebud, or The True Child (New York: Saxton and Miles; Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846). [Republished as The Roesebud: Stories not for good children, nor bad children, but for real children (Buffalo: G.H. Derby and Co., 1849).
The Dandelion (New York: Saxton and Miles; Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846). [Republished as The Dandelion: Stories not for good children, nor bad children, but for real children (Buffalo: G.H. Derby & Co., 1849). Republished as The Dandelion (Auburn: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853).]
The Moss Cup (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846). [Republished as The Moss Cup: Stories not for good children, nor bad children, but for real children (Buffalo: G.W. Derby, 1849). Republished as The Moss Cup (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853).]
Gift Books (Author and Editor):
The Mayflower for M DCCC XLVII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1847).
The Mayflower for M DCCC XLVIII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1848).
The Lover's Gift, or, Tributes to the Beautiful: American Series, ed. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Hartford: J.S. Parsons 1848).
The Keepsake: A Wreath of Poems and Sonnets (New York: Leavitt and Company, 1849).
Serialized Novels:
**The Remapo Pass: A Story of the Revolution, serialized in Neal's Saturday Gazette and Lady's Literary Museum (Philadelphia: Cummings and Peterson), January 29, 1848 and February 5, 1848). [Republished as “The Intercepted Messenger of Ramapo Pass” in Emerson's United States Magazine 3, no. 2 (1856): 115-125 and 225-235.]
The Two Wives, serialized in The Herald of Health: A Journal of Physical Culture 15 and 16, (1870).
Treatises:
**Woman and Her Needs (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1851).
[Searchable typescript from original New York Tribune articles; complete first edition. Partially republished as “The Sanctity of Marriage” in Woman’s Rights Commensurate with her Capacities and Obligations (1853). Republished in Liberating the Home (New York: Arno Press, 1974).]
**Hints on Dress and Beauty (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1852).
Shadowland, or, The Seer (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1852).
Plays:
Old New York, or Democracy in 1689: a tragedy in five acts (1848). [Published: New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1853.]
Destiny (~1848)
The Roman Tribute (1850). [Scripts used for performances in Philadelphia, November 1850 held in the Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.]
Dime Novels:
The Bald Eagle, or The Last of the Ramapaughs: A Romance of Revolutionary Times (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1867). [Earlier versions listed above The Remapo Pass: A Story of the Revolution. Then as “The Intercepted Messenger of Ramapo Pass”]
The Sagamore of Saco (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1868). [Originally published in story form, Graham’s Magazine 33: 47-55.]
Unpublished Novel:
The Queen of Tramps (No Date).
Other
Thomas Miller, The Romance of Nature, or The Poetical Language of Flowers, ed., Mrs. E. Oakes Smith (New York: J.C. Riker, 1852).
Joy Wiltenburg, "Excerpts from the Diary of Elizabeth Oakes Smith," Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9, no. 3 (1984): 534-48.
Mary Alice Wyman, Selections from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: Columbia UP, 1924).
Stories and Sketches
*"The Black Fortune-Teller," Family Reader, (March 8, 1831).
"Hokomok: A Legend of Maine," Family Reader, (May 10, 1831). [Republished in: The Rover 2, no. 2 (1843): 175-6; and in the Portland Transcript (November 30, 1844).]
"The Birthday Gift of Queen Elizabeth," Family Reader, (May 24, 1831).
"Homely Aunt Polly," Family Reader, (October 11, 1831).
"The Little Hunchback Girl," Family Reader, (August 14, 1832).
"Elderly Gentlemen," The Ladies' Companion 11, (May, 1839): 9-11.
"Angling; the Story of a Country Girl," The Ladies' Companion 11, (June 1839): 91-6; and (July 1839): 117-22.
"The Lover's Talisman, or The Spirit Bride," Southern Literary Messenger, (July 1839): 465-9. [Republished in The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVIII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1847): 231-51.]
"Funeral of a Moth," The Ladies' Companion 12, (November 1839): 27.
“Phrenological Speculations,” The Souvenir, (1840): 100-8;
"Dame Hans," The Ladies' Companion 12, (January 1840): 130-1;
"The Opal Ring," Godey's Lady's Book, (January and February 1840): 12-6, 58-60;
"Aunt Ruth," The Ladies' Companion 12, (March 1840): 218-9;
"Indian Traits.--The Story of Niskayah," The Ladies' Companion 13, (July, 1840): 141-4;
"Joe Lowell, a Sketch from Life," The Ladies' Companion 13, (September, 1840): 251-2;
"Zeke Dyer and One of His Yarns, a Short but Veritable History," The Ladies' Companion 15, (May, 1841): 39-41;
"Uncle Zeke, and one of his yarns," The Ladies' Companion 16, (March, 1842): 239-40;
"The Bud and Blossom (A Reason for Bachelorism)," Graham's Magazine, (August 1842): 61-3;
"Leaves by the Wayside I and II," Godey's Lady's Book 27, (August, September 1842): 94, 149-151;
"Gems and Reptiles," Godey's Lady's Book (Feb 1841). [Republished in The New World extra series nos. 27/28 (October 27, 1842): 46-8.]
"The Christian Sisters,” The New World extra series nos. 27/28 (October 27, 1842): 39-46.
“A Race for a Sweeheart,” Graham’s Magazine 21, 326-9.
"Lunacy of Fanny Parr," Godey's Lady's Book (January 1843). [Republished in The Rover 2, no. 21 (1843): 321-4.]
*“How to Tell a Story,” Graham’s Magazine 22, (January 1843): 33-5;
*"The Witch of Endor," Graham's Magazine (April 1843): 225-7. [Republished in The Rover 2, no. 2 (1843): 42-44; in Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century ed., Seba Smith (New York: J.K. Wellman, 1845), 71-79; in The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846), 282- 91; in The Christian Annual, a Miscellany for 1846 (Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1846), 106-16.
"The Miser's Wife," The Rover 1, no. 20 (1843): 313-4.
“A Sketch,” The Rover, (1843): 284. [Audio recording available at https://librivox.org/rover-01-18-by-various/]
"The Student (He Speculateth on the Will)," Graham's Magazine 22, (April 1843): 250.
"The Unrequited," Godey's Lady's Book (May 1843): 210-1.
“The Proud Ladye,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 27 (July 1843): 13-8.
“The Village School” [illustration of an engraving] Godey’s Lady’s Book 27 (July 1843): 39-41.
*"Coming to Get Married," Graham's Magazine, (July 1843): 52-56; [Republished in The Rover (April 12, 1845): 50-54.]
“Jack Spanker and the Mermaid,” Graham's Magazine, (July 1843): 68-71.
“The Milk Bill,” Godey’s Lady’s Book, (August 1843): 59-60.
“God Will Appoint A Deliverer, Or The Flower Girl of Antioch,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1844): 80-105.
“The Student,” By Ernest Helfenstein, The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1844): 25-31.
“Henpeckery,” The Wintergreen, A Perennial Gift for 1844. (New York, NY: Charles Wells & Co, 1844): 103-128.
"Not Sure About That Same," Godey's Lady's Book, (July 1844): 10-12.
“Thoughts Before a Duel,” Graham’s Magazine 25, (September 1844): 110-12.
"The Sentiment of Self-Sacrifice," Graham's Magazine (February 1845): 90-91. [Republished in Portland Transcript (February 8, 1845); in The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846), 185-92.]
"The Intercepted Letter," Godey's Lady's Book, (April 1845): 145-6.
“Na-Wi-Qua: A Metowac Legend,” The Rover, (May 31 1845): 169-171.
"Religious Duties--The Poor Woman," Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century ed., Seba Smith (New York: J.K. Wellman, 1845), 188-190.
"The Little Child's Philosophy," Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century ed., Seba Smith (New York: J.K. Wellman, 1845), 202-3.
*"The Defeated Life," The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846), 36-75.
"Machinito," The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1846), 197-206.
“Christmas Morn; or, Mounting the Hobby,” New York Illustrated Magazine, (1846): 69-71.
“The Widow Grey,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1846): 11-31.
“The Death of Sisera,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1846): 125-132.
“The Plague of Darkness,” By Ernest Helfenstein, The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1846): 181-8.
“Beloved of the Evening Star,” The Opal, (1847): 45-59.
"The Sagamore of Saco," Graham's Magazine, (July, 1848): 47-52.
*"Beauty, Vanity and Marble Mantels," The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVIII (Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1848), 172-87. [Thanks to Cynthia Patterson for the pdf. Originally published as “Two Chapters on Beauty, Vanity and Marble Mantels” in New York Illustrated Monthly, (1847) 5-8.]
"What is the Charm," Godey's Lady's Book 38, (February, 1849): 125-31.
“Pug Noses,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 41, (August 1850): 101-02.
“Confessions of Dreamer,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 43, (July-October 1851): 29, 111-12, 174-76, and 209-11.
"Kinneho; a Legend of Moosehead Lake," Godey's Lady's Book 42, (March, 1851): 175-79.
"The Destiny," The Odd-Fellows Offering for 1852.
“The Anniversary,” Graham’s American Magazine, (August 1855): 213-220.
"The Intercepted Messenger of Ramapo Pass," Emerson's United States Magazine 3, no. 2 (1856): 115-125 and 225-235.
"Sinned Against," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (April and May 1857): 393-99; 480-90.
"Andrew Knox and His Five Daughters," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (June 1857): 570-2.
"Faith and Love," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (June 1857): 581-4.
“The Crusade of the Bell,” Potter’s American Monthly 4, no. 43 (July 1875): 518-20.
“The Amazons of Mexico.” Potter’s American Monthly, (August 1877) 9: 109-13, 186-93, 265-9. [Re-titled in a later MS, “History of the Amazons, or How Woman’s Rights Worked in the Olden Time, the whole gathered from an Ancient Aztec Manuscript.” Scrapbook, Albert and Shirley Small Collection, the University of Virginia.]
“The Mocking-Bird,” Potter’s American Monthly, (November 1878): 328-31.
“Do Animals Blush?,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 69, (August 1879): 64-6.
“Maine: An Historic Sketch.” Potter’s American Monthly, (September 1879): 198-202.
“My Wicked Friend,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 70, (January 1880): 21-3.
“Girls,” Potter’s American Monthly, (May 1880): 365-74.
“The Legend of Maona,” Potter’s American Monthly 17, (1881): 165-8.
“The Witch-Mark,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 75, (November 1882): 253-60.
“Duncan’s Motto,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 78, (March 1884): 154-6.
“Puck and Brownie,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 82, (April 1886): 211-5.
“Why I Did Not Let in the Cat,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 83, (August 1886): 85-6.
“Animal Magnetism as a Curative Force,” The of Science and Health Phrenological Journal 84, (April 1887): 205-7.
“The Old Spinning Wheel,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 87, (June 1888): 318-9.
“How An Old Maid Came to a Resolution,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 88, (November 1888): 245-50.
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uncollected Poetry
(Poetry published in Collections can be accessed above in “BooKs”)
"The Bereaved Mother’s Address to a Young Friend," Family Reader, (October 20, 1829).
"The Widowed Mother," Family Reader, (October 27, 1829).
"Reflection," Family Reader, (April 20, 1830).
"The Two Knapps," Family Reader, (July 5, 1830).
"The Beggar Boy," Family Reader, (August 3, 1830).
"My steed stands tamping at the gate," Family Reader, (November 30, 1830).
"The Infant Corpse," Family Reader, (March 29, 1831).
"We will roam where the victim roamed," Family Reader, (April 19, 1831).
"The Friendship of Flowers," Family Reader, (July 11, 1831).
"To a Rainbow," Family Reader, (August 16, 1831).
"The Orphan Boy," Family Reader, (September 6, 1831).
"The Joy of Grief," Family Reader, (August 7, 1832).
"My Love for You Dear Ellen," Portland Daily Courier, (July 21, 1837).
“Iretta, The Fairy that would be Immortal,” The Token And Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas And New Year's Present, (1839): 284. [Reprinted in “Iretta, The Fairy that would be Immortal,” The Rover, (1844): 369-371.]
“The Jewish Captive” The Token And Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas And New Year's Present, (1839). [Reprinted in “The Jewish Captive,” The Rover, (1844): 385-6.]
"Ministry of Childhood," The Ladies' Companion 10, (April 1839): 269.
"The Flower of Innocence," The Ladies' Companion 11, (June 1839): 71.
"Birth of the Calla," The Ladies' Companion 11, (August 1839): 181.
"To the Amaranth," Southern Literary Messenger 5, (August 1839): 572.
"Dispute of the Katydids," The Ladies' Companion 11, (October 1839): 296.
"The Water," Southern Literary Messenger 5, (November 1839): 720. [Republished in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. New York, NY: J.S. Redfield, 1845.]
"First Statuist," The Ladies' Companion 12, (December 1839): 75.
“The Velvet Hat,” The Token And Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas And New Year's Present, (1840): 27-8.
“Luxury, Or The Lady-Bird,” The Token And Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas And New Year's Present, (1840): 126-8.
"Night," The Ladies' Companion 12, (April 1840): 271.
"The Dying Boy," The Ladies' Companion 14, (November 1840): 42-4.
“Apology for Cultivating Flowers," The Ladies' Companion 14, (December 1840): 95.
“Childhood’s Laugh,” Godey’s Lady’s Book, (January 1841): 21. [Republished in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. New York, NY: J.S. Redfield, 1845.]
"The Old New England Meeting House," Southern Literary Messenger 7, (September 1841): 607-8.
“The Acorn,” The Rover, 337-9. [Republished in The Rover (1844): 310-12.]
“The Drowned Mariner,” The Token And Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas And New Year's Present, (1842): 174-7.
“The Sinless Child,” Southern Literary Messenger 7, (January and February 1842): 86-9 and 121-9.
"To the Hudson," The Ladies' Companion 16, (January 1842): 155.
“Progression,” Southern Literary Messenger 8, (April 1842): 241.
"To the Memory of Lucy Hooper," The Ladies' Companion 17, (May 1842): 65.
“Thou Hast Loved,” Graham’s Magazine 21, (July 1842): 3. [Republished in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. New York, NY: J.S. Redfield, 1845.]
"Lights and Shadows," The Ladies' Companion 17, (August 1842): 218.
“To Fanny H,” Graham’s Magazine 21, (September 1842): 131.
"A Sonnet—The Poet," The Ladies' Companion 17, (October 1842): 300.
“To a Babe,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 25 (October 1842): 179.
“Sonnet: The Unattained,” Graham’s Magazine 21, (November 1842): 256.
“Sonnet,” Graham’s Magazine 21, (December 1842): 273.
“The Child and the Rose,” Godey’s Lady’s Book (December 1842): 273.
“To the Park Fountain, New York,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 25, (May 1843): 240.
"Repose," Graham's Magazine 22, (June 1843): 362.
“Stanzas to—-,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 26, (June 1843): 276.
“The Wife,” Graham’s Magazine 23, (September 1843): 159.
“Sympathy,” Graham’s Magazine 23, (October 1843): 197.
“Twilight—A Sonnet,” Godey’s Lady’s Book (October 1843): 148.
“Stanzas,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 27 (November 1843): 197.
“The Twice Told Seal, the motto being “God Bless You,” Graham’s Magazine 23 (November 1843): 260.
“The April Rain,” The Rover, (1844): 53. [Republished in "The April Rain." Caroline, May. pp. 277-278.]
“The Doomed Fairy,” The Rover, (1844): 281-283. [Reprinted in The Wintergreen, A Perennial Gift for 1844. (New York, NY: Charles Wells & Co, 1844).]
“Love Sheltered,” The Rover, (1844): 49.
“Spiritual Impressions,” The Mourner's Chaplet: an Offering of Sympathy for Bereaved Friends. Selected From American Poets. (Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln 1844): 125-6.
“Song,” The Rover, (1844): 4. [Republished in Graham's Magazine 27, (September 1845): 102.]
“Sonnet to the Opal,” Graham’s Magazine 24 (January 1844): 9. [Republished in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. New York, NY: J.S. Redfield, 1845.]
“The Soul’s Ideal,” Graham’s Magazine 24, (February 1844): 52.
“Distrust- A Sonnet,” Graham’s Magazine 24 (April 1844): 201. [Republished in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. New York, NY: J.S. Redfield, 1845.]
“Sonnet ‘Some Fell by the Wayside,” Graham’s Magazine 24, (April 1844): 150.
“Mental Solitude,” Graham’s Magazine 24 (May 1844): 218. [Republished in Portland Transcript, January 1845.]
“Sympathy – Two Sonnets,” Graham’s Magazine 25 (August 1844): 84.
"Childhood," [illustration of an engraving "Master Harman Tallman," engraved by W.L. Ornsby] The Columbian Magazine 2, (September 1844): 121.
Embury, Emma C, et al. American wild flowers in their native haunts. (New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1845).
"The Sleep of Plants." Embury, Emma C, et al., pp. 20-21.
"The Fairy Flax, Or Flower of Innocence." Embury, Emma C, et al., pp. 45-46.
"Bellwort. Hopelessness. The Omen." Embury, Emma C, et al., pp. 61-64.
"NA-WÌ-QUA: A Metowac Legend." Embury, Emma C, et al., pp. 193-201.
"The Wood Lily: Rustic Beauty, The Rustic Maiden’s Love." Embury, Emma C, et al., pp. 251-252.
“Hallowe’en, or The Fountain,” Graham’s Magazine 26, (1845): 34.
“Life a Mystery,” Graham’s Magazine 26 (1845): 185.
“The Rustic,” Graham’s Magazine 26 (1845): 232.
“Wayfarers: A Sonnet,” Graham’s Magazine 26 (1845): 280.
“The Young Mother,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1845): 49-50.
“Summer,” The Rover, (April 5, 1845): 44.
“Birds,” The Rover, (April 12, 1845): 59.
“The Temple of God is Within You,” The Rover, (May 10, 1845): 114.
“Maidenhood,” The Rover, (May 17, 1845): 137.
“The Last Guest,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 31, (July 1845): 24.
"Stanzas,” Graham's Magazine 27, (July 1845): 43.
“Error, A Sonnet,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 31, (August 1845): 37.
"Self-Distrust," Graham's Magazine 27, (August 1845): 52.
"Life-Long Martyrdom," Portland Transcript, (November 29, 1845).
"The Old Man," Portland Transcript, (November 29, 1845).
“Despondency,” New York Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Art, (1846): 41.
“The Full Cup,” By Ernest Helfenstein, The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1846): 133-134.
“Prayer,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1846): 135.
"Sonnet," Godey's Lady's Book 32 (January 1846): 12.
“The Poet,” Godey’s Lady’s Book 32, (February 1846) 102.
"An Autumn Thought," Godey's Lady's Book 32, (March 1846): 133.
"The Bereft," Godey's Lady's Book 32 (April 1846) 164.
"Song of Goethe's Margaret," Godey's Lady's Book 32, (May 1846): 193.
"Ideal Standards," Godey's Lady's Book 33, (July 1846): 6.
"Let me be a Fantasy," Godey's Lady's Book 33, (September 1846): 138.
"Absence," Godey's Lady's Book 33, (November 1846): 240.
“Stanzas,” By Ernest Helfenstein, The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1847): 243-4.
"Midnight—a Sonnet," Godey's Lady's Book 34, (January 1847): 27.
"Solitude,” Graham's Magazine 30, (January 1847): 27.
"Heloise to Abelard—a Sonnet," Godey's Lady's Book 34, (March 1847): 128.
“The Shadow of Ourselves,” The Young American’s Magazine of Self-Improvement 1, (March 1847): 83-4.
“Brotherhood,” The Young American’s Magazine of Self-Improvement 1, (May 1847): 150-51.
"Musings in the Country," Godey's Lady's Book 34, (June 1847): 301.
"Parting," Godey's Lady's Book 35, (July 1847): 18.
“Spare the Insect.” The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal XX, (August 1847): 384.
"Unprofitable Servants," Godey's Lady's Book 35, (October 1847): 191.
"To a Friend Leaving for Europe," Godey's Lady's Book 35, (December 1847): 238.
Caroline, May. The American Female Poets: With Biographical And Critical Notices. (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1848).
"Charity, in Despair of Justice." Caroline, May. pp. 269-270.
"The Great Aim." Caroline, May. P. 270.
"Angels." Caroline, May. pp. 270-271.
"Strength from the Hills." Caroline, May. pp. 273-274.
"The Recall, or Soul Melody." Caroline, May. pp. 276-277. [Reprinted in The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1848): 101-2.
"Love Dead." Caroline, May. pp. 279-280.
“Expressionless. A Sonnet.” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1849): 233.
“Sonnet (Suggested By the Great Movements in Europe),” Grahams Magazine 33, (1849): 340.
“Thomas A’Kempis,” The Opal: Pure Gift for the Holy Days. (New York, 1849): 76. [Reprinted in "Written in a Blank Leaf of Thomas Kempis," Godey's Lady's Book 38, (May 1849): 336.]
“Apathy, A Sonnet,” Godey’s Lady’s Book (May 1850): 338.
“To the Memory of Margaret Fuller,” New York Tribune, July 24, 1850: 1, col 1. [with thanks to Phyllis Cole]
Dumont, Henrietta. The language of flowers: The floral offering: a token of affection and esteem; comprising the language and poetry of flowers (Philadelphia: H. C. Peck & T. Bliss. 1851).
"Faith is the subtle chain." Dumont, Henrietta. P. 90.
“Isolation” Graham’s Magazine 39, (September 1851): 135.
"Sonnet" (Heloise to Abelard), Graham's Magazine 39, (October 1851): 212.
“Te Laudamus,” Graham’s Magazine 40, (January 1852): 66.
“The Sigh,” Graham’s Magazine 40, (May 1852): 472.
"The Sewing Girl," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (January 1857): 55.
"Sonnet—Heloise to Abelard," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (February 1857): 187.
"Sonnet—Heloise to Abelard II," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (March 1857): 290.
"Sonnet—Heloise to Abelard III," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (April 1857): 360.
"Thou. Poetry," By Ernest Helfenstein, Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (May 1857): 514.
"Sonnet—Heloise to Abelard IV," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (May 1857): 519.
"June. Stanzas," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (June 1857): 627.
"Sonnet—Heloise to Abelard V," Emerson's United States Magazine 4, (June 1857): 556.
“Lullaby,”The Herald of Health 12, (October 1868): 155. [Excerpted in “Kitty Howard’s Journal. My First Baby.”]
“Alone,” The Herald of Health 16, (December 1870): 257.
“At The Cross,” The Herald of Health 17, (May 1871): 209.
“Flying to Shelter,” The Herald of Health 18, (August 1871): 57.
“Childhood’s Laugh",” The Herald of Health 18, (October 1871): 161.
“Doghood,” Our Dumb Animals 5, (February 1873): 271.
“Shalto,” Our Dumb Animals 5, (March 1873): 286.
“The Little Cheat,” Our Dumb Animals 5, (April 1873): 286.
“Into the Soul of Things,” Our Dumb Animals 6, (August 1873): 26.
“Mated,” The Herald of Health 22, (October 1873): 176.
“A Struggle For Life,” Our Dumb Animals 6, (March 1874): 81.
“Whims of the Farm-house Bees,” Our Dumb Animals 7, (June 1874): 1.
“Era,” Our Dumb Animals 7, (October 1874): 35.
“Sonnet: On finding a hang-bird’s nest,” Our Dumb Animals 7, (November 1874): 43.
“The Hidden Thorn,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (July 1875): 11.
“A Thousand Little Children Loved them,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (August 1875): 17.
“Happy Birds. — My Puck,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (February 1876): 65.
“There is a sweetness and simplicity —,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (April 1876): 81.
“To My Mocking-Bird,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (April 1876): 83.
“A Thousand Little Children Loved them,” Our Dumb Animals 8, (August 1875): 17.
“The Innocent Sleep,” The Phrenological Journal 69, (July 1879): 15.
“Unforgetting,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 72, (January 1881): 20.
“Roses- A Sonnet,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 75, (July 1882): 15.
“A Thought,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 76, (January 1883): 20.
“The Old Tune,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 76, (December 1883): 304.
“At Sunrise,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 81, (October 1885): 202.
“The Dead of 1882,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 84, (August 1887): 83.
“Agnosticism- Sonnet,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 86, (March 1888): 136.
“A Listening Child,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 88, (May 1889): 223.
“Sonnet ‘One more unfortunate’,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 92, (April 1891): 156.
“De Profundis,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 95, (August 1892): 84.
“Unlovely Children,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 96, (February 1893): 60.
(No systematic bibliography of the poems of Elizabeth Oakes Smith is currently available. Cheryl Walker's American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (1992) reprints several poems by Oakes Smith popular in the 1840s and 50s, but many of these, or versions of them (including the more famous "The Sinless Child") may date from earlier decades).
Editorial/Non-Fiction
"Communications: To my dear niece...” Family Reader, (July 20, 1830).
"Communications: To my dear niece...” Family Reader, (July 27, 1830).
"Communications: You write me, my dear M, that you are engaged…” Family Reader, (July 27, 1830).
"Music and Reverie," Family Reader 17, (August 1830).
"The Frugal Housewife," Family Reader 31, (August 1830).
"The Widow," Family Reader 26, (October 1830).
"Original Letter: You ask me, my poor little niece, to write you a story,” Family Reader 23, (November 1830).
"Recollections of Thanksgiving," Family Reader, (December 7, 1830).
"Hints to Parents," Family Reader, (December 14, 1830).
"Hints to Young Ladies," Family Reader, (February 15, 1831).
"Hints to Parents," Family Reader, (March 15, 1831).
"Hints to Parents," Family Reader, (March 29, 1831).
"Hints to Parents," Family Reader, (August 2, 1831).
"Parents Morally Accountable for the Health of Their Children," Family Reader 23, (August 1831).
"Family Scenes," Family Reader, (August 30, 1831).
"The Dram Drinker," Family Reader, (September 13, 1831).
"Children's Impressions Concerning Death," Family Reader, (October 4, 1831).
"Never Lace Your Children," Family Reader, (October 11, 1831).
"Religious Duties--The Poor Woman," Family Reader, (November 1, 1831).
"Hints to Parents," Family Reader, (January 10, 1832).
"Teach the Young Idea How to Shoot," Family Reader (August 21, 1832).
"Will You Please Buy Me a Pair of Shoes...?" Family Reader, (August 28, 1832).
“The Worthies of Virginia,” Southern Literary Messenger 6, (January 1840). [Republished in the Brooklyn Eagle, December 1843.]
“Girlhood,” Southern Literary Messenger 6, (April 1840): 296-299.
"Shelley," Southern Literary Messenger 6, (November 1840): 717-20.
"Characterless Women," Graham's Magazine, (October 1842): 199-200.
"A Word Upon Conceitedness," Graham's Magazine, (October 1843): 203-4.
“The Sentiment of Petship,” The Rover (1844): 241-3. [Republished in The Mayflower for MDCCCXLVIII, (1847) and later in the United States Magazine, July 15, 1854.]
“The Sentiment of Self-Sacrifice,” Graham’s Magazine 26, (February 1845): 90-91.
"Ears," Portland Transcript, (February 22, 1845).
"Self-Renunciation," Portland Transcript, (March 8, 1845).
"Capital Punishment," Portland Transcript, (November 29, 1845).
“Be Chatty,” The Young American’s Magazine of Self-Improvement 1, (July 1847): 224-29.
**Remarks at the National Woman’s Rights Convention, Syracuse September 8, 1852
"A Card from Mrs. E. Oakes Smith," New York Tribune, (December 31, 1852).
“College For Both Sexes,” United States Magazine 1, no. 3 (July 15, 1854): 93.
"Reply to P.T. Barnum," New York Tribune, (May 5, 1855).
“The Life of Washington,” Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly, (1857-58): 1, 115, 227, 337, 451, and 565.
"Alice Carey," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 520-1.
"Books," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 591-2.
"Bankruptcy and Dress," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 746-47.
"Button-Holes and Babies," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 320-1.
"Fashions and Fashion Plates," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 764.
"A Happy New Year," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 87-8.
"Men and Women," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857) 83-6.
"New York State Teachers' Convention: Protest of a Lady Member," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 517-19.
"Power and Genius," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 312-3.
"The Weaker Vessel," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 319-20.
"Who Are Our Educators?" Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 636-38.
"Womanly Perception," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 529-30.
"Women Voting," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857): 417.
"Writing in New York," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1857):88-9.
"Burning Libraries," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 324-5.
"Private Insane Hospitals," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 214-5.
"Poverty a Producer," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 174-6.
"Sarah Helen Whitman," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 115.
"The Sewing Machine," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 101-2.
"Virtue Rewarded," Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 431-3.
"Women as Physicians,” Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, (1858): 433-4.
"The Ragpickers of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (January 1859): 133-39.
"The Street Musicians of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (January 1859): 160-67.
"The Newsboys of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (February 1859): 242-48.
"The Firemen of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (March 1859): 357-63.
"The Tombs, The Great City Prison," The Great Republic Monthly, (March 1859): 364-68.
"The Carmen of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (April 1859): 486-90.
"The Sewing Girls of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (May 1859): 568-76.
"Low Life in Large Cities," The Great Republic Monthly, (July 1859): 19-26.
"The Pawnbrokers of New York," The Great Republic Monthly, (July 1859).
"Autobiographic Notes," Beadle's Monthly (1867): 30-33, 147-56, 220-25, 325-29, 437-42, 538- 49.
“Studio of an Artist,” Baldwin’s Monthly 8, (January 1874): 2.
“Mrs. Henry R Schoolcraft,” Baldwin’s Monthly 8, (March 1874): 2.
“A Brief Chapter on Love,” Baldwin’s Monthly 8, (June 1874): 2.
“Reminiscences,” Baldwin’s Monthly 9, (September 1874): 1.
“Old Crawford,” Baldwin’s Monthly 9, (October 1874): 1.
“Celebrities of the Theatre,” Baldwin’s Monthly 10, (February 1875): 1.
“Montreal,” Baldwin’s Monthly 10, (May 1875): 7.
“Old Crawford and the Willy House (Of the White Mountains),” Baldwin’s Monthly 11, (July 1875): 2.
“A Visit to the ‘Pool’ Saco, Maine,” Baldwin’s Monthly 11, (September 1875): 7.
“The Family,” The Herald of Health 11, (January 1868): 9-11.
“Choosing a Husband,” The Herald of Health 11, (February 1868): 73-75.
“Choosing a Wife,” The Herald of Health 11, (March 1868): 105-7.
“Building the House,” The Herald of Health 11, (April 1868): 152-4.
“Keeping House,” The Herald of Health 11, (May 1868): 201-3.
“Rocking the Cardle,” The Herald of Health 11, (June 1868): 265-8.
“Training the Child,” The Herald of Health 12, (July 1868): 10-2.
“Boys and Girls,” The Herald of Health 12, (August 1868): 49-52.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. My First Baby,” The Herald of Health 12, (October 1868): 153-6.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. II,” The Herald of Health 12, (November 1868): 217-220.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. III,” The Herald of Health 12, (December 1868): 253-5.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. IV,” The Herald of Health 13, (January 1869): 20-3.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. V,” The Herald of Health 13, (February 1869): 74-6.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. VI,” The Herald of Health 13, (March 1869): 121-4.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. V,” The Herald of Health 13, (April 1869): 166-8.
“Whipping Children,” The Herald of Health 13, (May 1869): 193-8.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. VI,” The Herald of Health 13, (June 1869): 121-4.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. VII,” The Herald of Health 14, (July 1869): 21-3.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. VIII,” The Herald of Health 14, (August 1868): 61-4.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. IX,” The Herald of Health 14, (September 1869): 113-6.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. XI,” The Herald of Health 14, (October 1869): 157-160.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. XII,” The Herald of Health 14, (November 1869) 210-3.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. XIII,” The Herald of Health 14, (December 1869) 265-9.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 19, (March 1872): 109-112.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 19, (April 1872): 165-7.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 19, (May 1872): 209-212.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 19, (June 1872): 252-5.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 20, (July 1872): 20-4.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 20, (September 1872): 117-120.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 20, (October 1872): 166-9.
“The Convenanters,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 8, (November 1872): 489-490.
“Reminiscence of Foresti the Italian Patriot,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 8, (November 1872): 524-525.
“Kitty Howard’s Journal. Second Series,” The Herald of Health 20, (December 1872): 257-262.
“To a Picture of Miranda,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 9, (April 1873): 526.
“Lachrymals Versus Pocket-Handkerchiefs,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 10, (August 1873): 204-205.
“William Cullen Bryant,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 10, (September 1873): 403-405.
“Mothers-in-Law,” Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature 11, (February 1874): 211-212.
“Unwilling Maternity,” The Herald of Health 28, (March 1877): 49-53.
“Poe and Rachel,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 68, (April 1879): 179-80.
“The Philosophy of Superstition,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 70, (May 1880): 231-6.
“Hallucinations,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 71, (September 1880): 129-132.
“Our Women,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 71, (December 1880): 298-301.
“Does Gold Grow?,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 72, (February 1881): 78-80.
"The Puritan Child, Being an Autobiography," The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 72 (1881): 188-92, 304-9.
"The Puritan Child," The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 73 (1881): 72-8, 241-8.
"The Puritan Child," The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 74 (1882): 80-6.
“The Death Warning,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 75, (October 1882): 198-9.
“Suggestions,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 75, (December 1882): 292-3.
“How They Talked – My Recollections of Prominent Americans,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 76, (May 1883): 234-9.
“Save the Children,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 80, (May 1885): 283-6.
“Know Thyself,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 84, (September 1887): 119-21.
“How an Old Maid Came to a Resolution.” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 86, (November 1888): 245-50. [Only published portion of MS novel, The Queen of Tramps.]
“Margaret Fuller,” The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health 89, (September 1889): 104-7.
"Reminiscences and Reflections," The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health, (September, 1890): 105-6.
LECTURES
“Dress: Its Social and Aesthetic Relations” (June 6, 1851, Hope Chapel, New York City). [Expanded as Hints on Dress and Beauty, listed above in “Full-length works/Treatises”]
“Womanhood” (October, 1851)
“Manhood” (October/November, 1851)
“Our Humanity” (November/December, 1851)
**“The Dignity of Labor” (1852) [delivered at least until 1868]
“Cleopatra: Woman of Power” (1852)
“Woman the Inferior” (1852)
“Mme Roland and the French” (1852)
**“Address Before the National Woman’s Rights Convention at Syracuse” (September 8, 1852)
“Margaret Fuller” (1853?)
“The Poet” (date undetermined)
“Biology and Woman’s Rights” (Woman Suffrage Convention, Washington D.C. January 10, 1879)
“Ralph Waldo Emerson: Some Recollections of Him” (1884)
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NOTES:
Oakes Smith and her husband edited The United States Magazine, published by J.M. Emerson from January 1856 to June 1857. From October 1857, in the midst of volume 5, Emerson took over Putnam’s Monthly, and published the magazine by Oaksmith and Co. as Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly. New format and print styles were added in January 1858 under the same title, which died in November 1858. The Oaksmiths carried it on as The Great Republic Monthly from January to November 1859. Thus The United States Magazine, Emerson’s United States Magazine, Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly and The Great Republic Monthly issue from the essentially the same source. Articles from this source are mostly unsigned, but stylistic and referential clues make Oakes Smith’s authorship probable in the list identified here.
*Included in Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings: Volume I—Emergence and Fame (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2023).
**Included in Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume II—Feminist Journalism and Public Activism (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2024).
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