Peterkin, Julia 1880-1961

Overview

Works:	140 works in 335 publications in 3 languages and 6,577 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Historical fiction Domestic fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Illustrated works Pictorial works Photobooks Catalogs Bibliographies Academic theses
Roles:	Author, Artist, Creator
Classifications:	PS3531.E77, 813.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Julia Peterkin

Julia Peterkin by Tom Landess( Book )
A devil and a good woman, too : the lives of Julia Peterkin by Susan Millar Williams( Book )
Cheating the stillness : the world of Julia Peterkin by Gayla Jamison( Visual )
The women who make our novels by Grant M Overton( Book )
The passionate mind : four studies including "Julia Peterkin, a souvenir" by Ann Shealy( Book )

Roll, Jordan, roll : the Gullah photographs of Doris Ulmann by Michelle Lamunière( )
Julia Peterkin : a biographical and critical study by Louis Lee Henry( )
Minerva finds a voice : the early career of Julia Peterkin by H. Dean Thompson( )
Reflections from the well : Julia Mood Peterkin and the Gullah community by Katharine Chapman Purcell( )
Julia Mood Peterkin : expending trickster energy in Gullah tales by Jan Christine Enney Kreidler( )
The life and works of Julia Mood Peterkin by Marilyn Price Maddox( )
More than just artifact? : reappraising the value of Julia Peterkin's Gullah fiction by Leslie Lorene Ryan( )
by Frank Daniel( )
"A world of my own making" : the dualism of Julia Peterkin by Elizabeth Robeson( )
Papers by Julia Peterkin( )
Julia Peterkin, South Carolina author : a bio-bibliography by Louise Timberlake Stem( )
Women folk and the landscape of modernism : the novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Julia Peterkin, and Zora Neale Hurston by Carol Elena Newell( )
Mildred Seydell Papers by Mildred Seydell( )
Julia Mood Peterkin letter to M.H. Kowan by Julia Peterkin( )
Autobiography by Julia Peterkin( Book )

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Most widely held works by Julia Peterkin

Scarlet sister Mary by Julia Peterkin( Book )

51 editions published between 1928 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 1,337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a free-spirited woman's life in the post-Emancipation South [Carolina]. It is unique in its portrayal of an African-American community as capable of independent existence in the South at that time. The culture of the community is portrayed most interestingly and permeates through the religious, spiritual and even medical undertones of story. While Peterkin tells a poetic tale of an independent, strong, rebellious woman ... --Bobby Jasak at Amazon.com

Black April by Julia Peterkin( Book )

37 editions published between 1927 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Black April, the foreman of Blue Brook Plantation, must confront his own mortality and the tragic consequence of human desire in this simple tale of black country life in coastal South Carolina

Bright skin by Julia Peterkin( Book )

26 editions published between 1932 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 626 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young Gullah girl is lured from her South Carolina plantation to the bright lights of New York

Roll, Jordan, roll by Julia Peterkin( Book )

23 editions published between 1933 and 1974 in English and held by 590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Green Thursday : stories by Julia Peterkin( Book )

11 editions published between 1924 and 1998 in English and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vividly rendering the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations of a bygone rural south, these closely connected stories revolve around the sometimes tragic lives of a black farming couple, Killdee and Rose Pinesett. When it first appeared in the 1920s, Green Thursday's unsentimental portrayal of African Americans was startlingly ahead of its time - enough so to inspire hate mail from white Southerners accusing the author, herself white, of betraying her race. At the same time, however, Green Thursday was praised by reviewers and social observers from all quarters, including W.E.B. Du Bois, who called it "a beautiful book."

Collected short stories of Julia Peterkin by Julia Peterkin( Book )

4 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A plantation Christmas by Julia Peterkin( Book )

9 editions published between 1934 and 1987 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Borzoi 1925 : being a sort of record of ten years of publishing by Inc Alfred A. Knopf( Book )

2 editions published in 1925 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scarlet sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin by Julia Peterkin( Book )

3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 57 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

El pecado rojo by Julia Peterkin( Book )

2 editions published in 1931 in Spanish and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scarlet sister Mary by Julia Peterkin( Book )

2 editions published in 1949 in Undetermined and English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Good housekeeping treasury, selected from the complete files( Book )

1 edition published in 1960 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ashes by Julia Peterkin( Book )

2 editions published between 1954 and 2012 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Roll, Jordan, Roll ... [An account of the American negro.] The photographic studies by Doris Ulmann by Julia Peterkin( Book )

1 edition published in 1934 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The diamond ring by Julia Peterkin( )

1 edition published in 1930 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Los premios Pulitzer de novela( Book )

5 editions published between 1962 and 1985 in Spanish and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Roll, Jordan, roll; the text by Julia Peterkin by Julia Peterkin( Book )

1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

by Julia Peterkin( )

in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Correspondence, mss. of writings, including published and unpublished sketches, short stories, plays, poems, reviews, novel, fragments from Peterkin's published novels: Black April (1927), Bright Skin (1932), and Scarlet Sister Mary (1928), and biographical and critical clippings. Includes correspondence of Walter F. White, assistant secretary of NAACP, relating to the lynching (1925) of Pink Whaley in St. Matthews, S.C. Other correspondents include Henry Bellaman, H.L. Mencken, Carl Sandburg, and Stark Young

Maum Lou by Julia Peterkin( )

1 edition published in 1925 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sorcerer [a story] by Julia Peterkin( )

1 edition published in 1925 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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