Representation of Immigrants in Literature

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Charles Follen Adams
Leedle Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems (poetry) 1878

Lucia True Ames
Memoirs of a Millionaire (novel) 1889

Dion Boucicault
The Poor of New York (play) 1857

John Brougham
The Irish Emigrant (play) ca. 1857
The Irish Yankee; or the Birth-day of Freedom (play) ca. 1855-60

Abraham Cahan
Yekl. A Tale of the New York Ghetto. (novel) 1896

Rebecca Harding Davis
Life in the Iron Mills (novel) 1861

Anonymous
The Emigrant Train, or Go West (play) 1879

Henry Blake Fuller
The Cliff-Dwellers. A Novel. (novel) 1893
With the Procession. A Novel. (novel) 1895

Annabel Gray
Comrades (novel) 1896

Henry Grimm
The Chinese Must Go (play) 1879

Charles H. Harris
Der Leedle Vanderer (satire) 1871
Carl Pretzel's Komikal Speaker (satire) 1873

Bret Harte
*Harte's Complete Works (poetry, short stories) 1929

Henry James
The American Scene (novel) 1907

Anonymous
King Lager, or Ye Sons of Malt (play) 1857

Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (nonfiction) 1890

Henry David Thoreau
Walden (memoirs) 1854

John Todd
The Sunset Land; or, The Great Pacific Slope. (journal) 1870

Frederick Whishaw
A Russian Vagabond (novel) 1898

Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (novella) 1891

George Wood
Peter Schlemihl in America (satire) 1848

*Harte is the author of several nineteenth-century works depicting Chinese immigrants, including “Wan Lee, the Pagan,” “See Yup,” and the widely published poem “The Heathen Chinee.”

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