When I did my initial search for research material available within the UCF Library, I used the Library of Congress Subject Headings listed below. I found a lot of books this way, plus, when I went to the shelves to retrieve the books, I often found more hidden gems with good old fashioned shelf browsing.
I actually had some trouble using the LCSH with the America: History & Life database. When I used “conduct of life” and “conduct of life in literature” nothing showed up. When I simply used “conduct” but set the era guidelines to 1800-1850, still nothing showed up. Removing the era guidelines showed that there were articles using the keyword “conduct,” but none of them were applicable to my research. I eventually only found two articles in the America: History & Life database when I used “Savage, Sarah” as my keyword and one of those articles I had to request via Inter-Library Loan. However, the Thomas B. Lovell article yielded three other sources when I looked through his works cited page, so I wasn’t too disappointed at only finding two articles in that particular database.
In the MLA database, using Sarah Savage as the primary subject author only yielded two articles, both by Lovell (one was a dissertation, and the other I already had). The use of The Factory Girl as the primary subject work yielded the same two Lovell articles plus an article that centered around Herman Melville’s The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids but also referenced The Factory Girl and three other novels featuring factory girls – I skipped this article. My most fruitful search occurred when I used “conduct” as the genre, as I found five articles. Most of my sources do not specifically related to The Factory Girl, but they do relate to other primary sources like The Factory Girl, and cover issues raised by the text.
LCSH used:
• Conduct of life in literature
• Didactic fiction, America
• Domestic fiction, America
• America - Literatures (then narrowed by 19th century and United States as geographical location)
• America – Early
• America – Bibliography
MLA database keywords:
• Genre: conduct book
• Subject terms: treatment of public life
• Savage, Sarah
• The Factory Girl
Microfilm:
Savage, Sarah. Advice to a Young Woman at Service: In a Letter from a Friend. Boston: Printed for the Trustees of the Pub. Fund by J.B. Russell, 1823.*
Keyword: Found in the works cited of the Lovell article.
*Requesting through ILL.
Articles:
Donawerth, Jane. “Nineteenth-Century United States Conduct Book Rhetoric by Women.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 5-21. MLA International. 8 February 2009.
Keyword: Found with conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. “The Dialogic Margins of Conduct Fiction: Hannah Webster Foster’s The Boarding School.” JASAT 25 (1994): 59-72. MLA International. 9 February 2009.*
Keyword: conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Jacobs, Naomi. “In Praise of the Talking Woman: gender and conversation in the nineteenth century.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 14.1 (1990): 55-70. MLA International. 9 February 2009.*
Keyword: conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Johnson, Nan. “Reigning in the Court of Silence: women and rhetorical space in postbellum America.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 33.3 (2000): 221-42. MLA International. 9 February 2009.
Keyword: conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Lovell, Thomas B. “Separate Spheres and Extensive Circles: Sarah Savage’s ‘The Factory Girl’ and the Celebration of Industry in Early Nineteenth-Century America.” Early American Literature 31.1 (1996): 1-24. America: History & Life. 7 February 2009.
Keyword: Savage, Sarah ‘The Factory Girl’ in America: H & L database.
Mahoney, Deirdre M. “‘More Than An Accomplishment’: advice on letter writing for nineteenth-century American women.” Hunting Library Quarterly 66.3-4 (2003): 411-23. JSTOR. 9 February 2009.
Keyword: Found with conduct as the genre in MLA database.
Moore, Margaret B. “Sarah Savage of Salem: A Forgotten Writer.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 127.3 (1991): 240-259. America: History & Life. 7 February 2009.*
Keyword: Savage, Sarah in America: H & L database. Also mentioned in the works cited for the Lovell article.
Morgan, Simon. “’A Sort of Land Debatable’: female influence, civic virtue and middle-class identity.” Women’s History Review 13.2 (2004): 183-209. MLA International. 9 February 2009.
Keyword: Found with “conduct of life in literature.”
Morrison, Lucy. “Conduct (Un)Becoming to Ladies of Literature: how-to-guides for romantic women writers.” Studies in Philology 99.2 (2002): 202-228. JSTOR. 9 February 2009.
Keyword: conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Shaw, Margaret. “Reading the Social Text: the disciplinary rhetorics of Sarah Ellis and Samuel Beeton.” Victorian Literature and Culture 24 (1996): 175-92. MLA International. 9 February 2009.*
Keyword: conduct as the genre in the MLA database.
Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood.” American Quarterly 18.2 (1966): 151-174. JSTOR. 7 February 2009.
Keyword: Recommended by Dr. Logan.
*Requesting through ILL.
Books:
Baym, Nina. Woman’s Fiction: a guide to novels by and about women in America, 1820-1870. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1978.
Keyword: Recommended by Dr. Logan.
Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel. Tampa: U of South Florida P, 1991.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Davis, Cynthia J. and Kathryn West. Women Writers in the United States: a Timeline of Literary, Cultural and Social History. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Kelley, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002.
Keyword: Found in the works cited of the Lovell article.
MacLeod, Anne Scott. A Moral Tale: Children’s Fiction and American Culture 1820-1860. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1975.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
More, Hannah. Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals. Ed. Patricia Demers. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Editions, 2007.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
O’Keefe, Deborah. Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books. New York: Continuum, 2000.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Opdycke, Sandra. The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America. NY: Routledge, 2000.
Keyword: Found while retrieving the Ryan book.
Ryan, Mary P. The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domesticity, 1830-1860. NY: Haworth Press, 1982.*
Keyword: Found in the works cited of the Lovell article.
---. Womanhood in America: from colonial times to the present. NY: F. Watts, 1975.
Keyword: UCF did not have the book listed in the Lovell article, but it did have this one, so I grabbed it.
Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2005.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Wagner-Martin, Linda, and Cathy N. Davidson. The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Wechselblatt, Martin. Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1998.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
Wright, Charlotte M. Plain and Ugly Janes: the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction. NY: Garland, 2000.
Keyword: Found via shelf browsing when I was retrieving the Kelley book.
Zaczek, Barbara Maria. Censored Sentiments: letters and censorship in epistolary novels and conduct material. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Keyword: Found via the LCSHs mentioned above.
*Requesting through ILL.
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