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Phillis Wheatley - Bibliography

  • Vincent Carretta, editor. Complete Writings - Penguin Classics. Reprint 2001.
  • John C. Shields, editor. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Reprint 1989.
  • Merle A. Richmond. Bid the Vassal Soar: Interpretive Essays on the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley. 1974.
  • Mary McAleer Balkun. "Phillis Wheatley's construction of otherness and the rhetoric of performed ideology." African American Review, Spring 2002 v. 36 i. 1 p. 121.

Children's Books

  • Ages 8-12:
    • Kathryn Lasky. A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet. January 2003.
    • Susan R. Gregson. Phillis Wheatley. January 2002.
    • Maryann N. Weidt. Revolutionary Poet: A Story about Phillis Wheatley. October 1997.
  • Young Adult:
    • Ann Rinaldi. Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley. 1996.

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