Common Reading:
Laffrado, Laura, editor. Selected Writings of Ella Higginson. Whatcom County Historical Society P, 2015.
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All sections from Selected Writings of Ella Higginson:
- Laffrado, Introduction to Selected Writings of Ella Higginson.
- Higginson Poems: “Four-Leaf Clover”; “The Snow Pearls”; “Sunrise on the Willamette”; “The Vanishing Race.”
- Short stories: “The Mother of ‘Pills’ ”; “The Arnspiker Chickens”; “M’liss’s Child.”
- Mariella, of Out-West, chapters: XI-XIV.
- Alaska, The Great Country, chapters: I, XXIV, XXV, XXXII.
Suggested Secondary Background Materials:
Cleman, John. “The Belated Frontier: H.L. Davis and the Problem of Pacific Northwest Regionalism.” Western American Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 431-51.
Davey, Frank. “Toward the Ends of Regionalism.” A Sense of Place: Re-Evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing, edited by Christian Riegel and Herb Wylie, U of Alberta P, 1997, pp. 1-18.
Findlay, John M. “A Fishy Proposition: Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest.” Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, edited by David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner, UP of Kansas, 1997, pp. 37-70.
Kollin, Susan. “North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.” A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America, edited by Charles Crow, Blackwell P, 2003, pp. 4, 12-31.
Lutes, Jean Marie. “Beyond the Bounds of the Book: Periodical Studies and Women Writers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010, pp. 36-56.