Representative Works
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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