Further Reading
- "Elizabeth Madox Roberts." Southern Review 20, No. 4 (October 1984): 749-835. (Nine essays devoted to various aspects of Roberts's life and works.)
- Adams, J. Donald. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts." Virginia Quarterly Review 12, No. 1 (January 1936): 80-90. (Generally favorable assessment of Roberts's novels and an extended examination of her place in contemporary world literature at the time.)
- Bernstein, Stephen. "Comprehension, Composition, and Closure in Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The Time of Man." The Kentucky Review* X, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 21-37. (Argues that the structure of Roberts's novel mirrors its themes and that earlier criticism of her work failed to recognize its formal dimension.)
- Bishop, John Peale. "Spirit and Sense." The Collected Essays of John Peale Bishop, pp. 313-16, edited by Edmund Wilson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. (Brief, generally favorable assessment of Song in the Meadow.)
- Buchan, Alexander M. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts." Southwest Review XXV, No. 4 (July 1940): 463-81. (Examines Roberts's use of language in attempt to account for various critical misunderstandings about her work.)
- Davidson, Donald. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts." The Spyglass: Views and Reviews, 1924-1930, pp. 16-20, edited by John Tyree Fain. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1963. (Positive review of The Time of Man in which Davidson compares Roberts to Glenway Westcott, asserting that she writes beautifully about "country people." The review was originally published in the Nashville Tennessean on 5 September 1926.)
- Gray, Richard. "The Good Farmer: Some Variations on a Historical Theme." The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South, pp. 106-49. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. (Chapter section headed "Womanchild in a Promised Land: Elizabeth Madox Roberts" deals with the ways in which Roberts attempted to reconcile a mythological and a reportorial approach to fiction writing.)
- Hardwick, Elizabeth. Introduction to Black Is My True-love's Hair. New York: Arno Press, 1977. (Brief overview of the novel and of Roberts's career.)
- Mcllwaine, Shields. "Sensibility and Realism: Edith S. Kelley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Paul Green." The Southern Poor-White: From Lubberland to Tobacco Road, pp. 199-217. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. (Discusses the different kinds of realism employed by the three authors in their depictions of certain Southern character types.)
- Smith, Jo Reinhard. "New Troy in the Bluegrass: Vergilian Metaphor and The Great Meadow." The Mississippi Quarterly XXII, No. 2 (Spring 1969): 39-46. (Discusses the ways in which an understanding of Virgil's Aeneis (first century BC; The Aeneid) is essential to reading The Great Meadow*.)
- Smith, William Jay. "A Tent of Green (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)." The Streaks of the Tulip: Selected Criticism, pp. 113-18. Delacorte Press, 1972. (Highly favorable review of Under the Tree.)
- Tate, Linda. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: A Bibliographical Essay." Resources for American Literary Study 18, No. 1 (1992): 22-43. (Detailed discussion of Roberts's publishing history that includes an extended survey of critical reactions to her work.)
- Wagenknecht, Edward. "The Inner Vision: Elizabeth Madox Roberts." Cavalcade of the American Novel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century, pp. 389-96. New York: Henry Holt, 1952. (Overview of Roberts's fiction.)
- Winters, Yvor. "'Under the Tree." Yvor Winters: Un-collected Essays and Reviews, pp. 16-18, edited by Francis Murphy. Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1973. (Positive review of Under the Tree. The review was originally published in Poetry, Vol. XXII, No. 1, 1923.)
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