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This from the Afterword in The Oxford Mark Twain version of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Editor Susan K. Harris recommends these titles For Further Reading.

Readers interested in histories of Joan of Arc Should look at William P. Barrett's The Trial of Jeanne d' Arc: Translated into English from the Original Latin and French Documents (n.p.: Gotham House, 1932) and Vita Sackville-West's Saint Joan of Arc (New York: Literary Guild, 1936). Evaluations of Twain's handling of the story can be found in Roger B. Salomon's Twain and the Image of History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), William Searle's The Saint and the Skeptics: Joan of Arc in the Work of Mark Twain, Anatole France, and Bernard Shaw (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976), Susan K. Harris's Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1982), Rolande Ballorain's "Mark Twain's Capers: A Chameleon in King Carnival's Court," in American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Fritz Fleischmann (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982), and J.D. Stahl's Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994). Discussions of the New Woman in history and literature can be found in Lloyd Fernando's "New Women" in the Late Victorian Novel (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977), Gail Cunningham's The New Woman and the Victorian Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1978), Patricia Marks's Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers: The New Woman in the Popular Press (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990), and Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick, eds., 1915, The Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art and the New Theatre in America (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991).

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