Austin, Mary 1868-1934

Overview

Works:	479 works in 1,456 publications in 2 languages and 118,185 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Biography Fiction History Autobiographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Personal correspondence Pictorial works Feminist fiction Political fiction
Roles:	Author, Composer, Former owner, Correspondent
Classifications:	PS3501.U8, 811.508

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Mary Austin

Dancing ghosts : Native American and Christian syncretism in Mary Austin's work by Mark T Hoyer( )
Mary Austin by Lincoln Steffens( )
Mary Austin and the American West by Susan Goodman( )
Reading the trail : exploring the literature and natural history of the California crest by Corey Lee Lewis( )
The flock by Mary Austin( )

Mary Hunter Austin by T. M Pearce( Book )
Earth horizon, autobiography by Mary Austin( Book )
Mary Austin : song of a maverick by Esther F Lanigan( Book )
I-Mary, a biography of Mary Austin by Augusta Fink( Book )
Many minds by Carl Van Doren( Book )
The women who make our novels by Grant M Overton( Book )
Picturing a different West : vision, illustration, and the tradition of Austin and Cather by Janis P Stout( Book )
Literary America, 1903-1934 : the Mary Austin letters by Mary Austin( Book )
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature by Barney Nelson( Book )
Western American literature : a bibliography of interpretive books and articles by Richard W Etulain( Book )
Exploring lost borders : critical essays on Mary Austin( Book )
Mary Austin, woman of genius by Helen MacKnight Doyle( Book )
Mary Austin's regionalism : reflections on gender, genre, and geography by Heike Schaefer( Book )
Mary Austin; the Southwest works by Jo W Lyday( Book )
A woman of genius by Mary Austin( Book )

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Most widely held works by Mary Austin

The land of little rain by Mary Austin( )

130 editions published between 1903 and 2018 in English and held by 4,230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The Land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focused on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She wrote of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Signs of spring by Mary Austin( )

8 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 1,811 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hunting weather by Mary Austin( )

8 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,810 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Frustrate by Mary Austin( )

7 editions published in 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medicine songs by Mary Austin( )

7 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jimville : a Bret Harte town by Mary Austin( )

9 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inyo by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,808 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Art influence in the West by Mary Austin( )

7 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,808 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bitterness of women by Mary Austin( )

7 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spring in the valley by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,805 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Indian songs by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spring o' the year by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mahala Joe by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Winter in the Sierras by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agua dulce by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mother of Felipe by Mary Austin( )

8 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ford by Mary Austin( )

25 editions published between 1917 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,796 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history--the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and feminist organizing of the time, exemplified in the successful efforts of an independent young woman to buy back her family's Owens Valley ranch

A pipe of oaten straw by Mary Austin( )

6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,769 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The walking woman by Mary Austin( )

7 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,767 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Walking Woman is an extended portrait of two women, both on the cusp of invisibility in the American Southwest, braided together in a parable of banishment and atonement. In her lyrical approach to the photographic narrative, Berkeley documents the parallel lives of two strangers, Ruth and Spice, against the sacred beauty of the desert landscape. In doing so, she raises environmental concerns alongside feminist ones, suggesting both to be the products of a capitalist and paternalistic society"--Publisher's website

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