CRITICISM

Bain, Robert. “Ellen Gilchrist.” In Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, pp. 169–84. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Presents a brief overview of Gilchrist's life and career, and traces both her major themes and critical response to her work.

Jenkins, Victoria. “Charmed Loves.” Chicago Tribune Books (22 May 1994): 5.

In this review, Jenkins discusses the techniques Gilchrist employed in Starcarbon.

MacDonald, D. R. “More Dreamy Dreams.” Washington Post Book World 25, No. 36 (3 September 1995): 6.

MacDonald asserts that Gilchrist's The Age of Miracles would be better with fewer stories highlighting Rhoda, who can be too much to take at times.

McDonnell, Jane Taylor. “Controlling the Past and the Future: Two-Headed Anna in Ellen Gilchrist's The Anna Papers.” In The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History, edited by Mickey Pearlman, pp. 187–93. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992.

McDonnell analyzes the role Anna Hand plays between her family's past and future in Gilchrist's The Anna Papers.

Additional coverage of Gilchrist's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 113 and 116; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 41 and 61; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Popular Writers; Contemporary Southern Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 130; DISCovering Authors Modules: Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Vols. 1 and 2; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 9; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 14.