Writing

Professor De Wolfe writes about ordinary women who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances and how those unusual and unexpected lives end up portrayed in print culture. Her current research projects include a study of nineteenth-century works of sensational fiction featuring Maine factory girls, and, an ongoing project on the public performances of Shaker apostates. Click on the links below to learn more about Professor De Wolfe’s published works.

Domestic Broils: Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the Narratives of Joseph and Mary Dyer (working title, University of Massachusetts Press, under contract):

These early nineteenth-century published narratives of husband and wife, Shaker and anti-Shaker, detail marriage and family life in antebellum New England in, and out of, the Shakers.

The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories (Kent State University Press, 2007):

The 1849 death of Berengera Caswell is captured in fact and in fiction.

Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer’s Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (Palgrave, 2002):

The life of the Shakers’ most persistent opponent.

Such New of the Land: US Women Nature Writers (University Press of New England, 2000):

A collection of essays on women nature writers co-edited with Thomas Edwards.