Works
Full-Length Published Works
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Novels
Riches Without Wings or, The Cleveland Family
(Boston: G.W. Light, 1838).
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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).]
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 Mystery of the Mountain
The Newsboy
(New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 1854).
Poetry Collections
The Sinless Child and Other Poems
(New York: Wiley and Putnam; Boston: W.D. Ticknor, 1843). [Reviewed in Graham’s in June 1843.]
(New York: J.S. Redfield, 1845).
The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith
[providing scholars a view of a rare work where Oakes Smith had two opportunities for revision.]
“The Sinless Child” presented side-by-side: 1842, 1843, 1845
Children’s Story Collections
(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).
Rosebud, or The True Child
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).]
(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).]
The Moss Cup
Gift Books (Author & Editor)
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(Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1847).
The Mayflower for M DCCC XLVII
(Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1848).
The Mayflower for M DCCC XLVIII
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
(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).
Woman and Her Needs
(New York: Fowler and Wells, 1852).
Hints on Dress and Beauty
(New York: Fowler and Wells, 1852).
Shadowland, or, The Seer
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Plays
Old New York, or Democracy in 1689: a tragedy in five acts (1848)
[Published: New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1853.]
a rough typescript of the play is available here, from The University of Virginia. Another MS of the same play, entitled “Masaniello” is held in the Elizabeth Oakes Smith papers at the New York Public Library. The versions have not been compared or collated).
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.]
Hand-stitched and copied performance edition of Act I of The Roman Tribute. Click to view larger.
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
A very rough typescript of the manuscript for scholarly use is available here.
MSS of the Queen of Tramps, listed in the catalog of the collection at UVa as "The Queen of Trumps." Running more than 350 pages, the manuscript involves a female protagonist who moves in with the urban poor. It is notable that the signature on the title page is clearly that of a later period.
The Queen of Tramps
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