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1623 GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS
from Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool
1624 CHEROKEE ORAL TRADITION
The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf
First Version
Second Version
1625 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
II: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
IV: How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
1628 ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Mules and Men
from Chapter V
1629 AFRICAN AMERICAN SPRITUALS
Steal Away to Jesus
Go Downy Moses
1631 W. E. B. DU BOIS
The Souls of Black Folk
from Chapter XIV: Of the Sorrow Songs
1633 BALLADS AND WORK SONGS
John Henry
Cotton Mill Colic
1638 MARGARET MITCHELL
Gone with the Wind
from Chapter XLl
1639 SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
1640 A White Heron
1646 KATE CHOPIN(185l-l904)
1648 The Awakening
1733 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)
1735 The Yellow Wallpaper
1745 Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
1746 RELATED VOICES
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Deciding to Publish "The Yellow Wallpaper"