"[T]the literature of mid-nineteenth century women is essentially about women. Thus the first truth the women have to tell is that not all Americans are male and the assumption that an American text must be a man's story told by men is partisan to say the least. Were this truth to be told, of course, it would require a redefinition of what constitutes an American theme; it would require the possibility that a story by a woman about women could be an American text...at issue equally is the matter of perspective. For a man's story told by a man is not necessarily the same as a man's story told by a woman."

• Tempest and Sunshine (New York, 1854); reprint New York: G.W. Dillingham (1886)
• The English Orphans (1855)
• The Homestead on the Hillside, and other Tales (Auburn, 1855)
• Lena Rivers (1856)
• Meadow Brook (New York, 1857)
• Dora Deane, or the East India Uncle, and Maggie Miller, or Hagar's Secret (1858)
• Cousin Maude and Rosamond (1860)
• Marian Grey (1863)
• Hugh Worthington (1863)
• Darkness and Daylight (1864)
• The Cameron Pride, or Purified by Suffering, or Family Pride (1867)
• The Christmas Font, a story for young folks (1868)
• Rose Mather, a Tale of the War (1868)
• Ethelyn's Mistake (1869)
• Millbank (1871)
• Edna Browning (1872)
• West Lawn, and the Rector of St. Mark's (1874)
• Mildred (1877)
• Daisy Thornton (1878)
• Forest House (1879)
• Chateau d'Or (1880)
• Red Bird (1880)
• Madeline (1881)
• Queenie Hatherton (1883)
• Christmas Stories (1884)
• Bessie's Fortune (1885)
• Gretchen (1887)

• "Mary Jane Holmes: Works in the Collection", Early American Fiction, University of Virginia
• Nina Baym, Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America 1820—70, Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1978.
• Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Book, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997
• Grace Carson,“The Works of Mary Jane Holmes, A Brockport Union Catalog.” M. A. Thesis. SUNY College at Brockport, 1988.
• Elaine K. Ginsberg, “Mary Jane Hawes Holmes.” American Women Writers, Vol. 2, Ed. Lina Mainiero. New York: Ungar, 1980, pp. 317—19.
• Mary Kelley, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, New York: Oxford UP, 1984.
• Donald A. Koch, "Introduction: Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes and The Lamplighter by Maria Susanna Cummins", Popular American Fiction, Ed. Koch. New York: Odyssey, 1968. v—xviii.
• Helen Waite Papashvily, All the Happy Endings: A Study of the Domestic Novel in America, the Women Who Wrote It, the Women Who Read It, in the Nineteenth Century, 1956; reprint 1972.
• Fred Lewis Pattee, The Feminine Fifties, New York: 1940; reprint New York: Kennikat Press, 1966.
• Barbara J. McGuire, “The Orphan’s Grief: Transformational Tears and the Maternal Fetish in Mary Jane Holmes’s Dora Deane; or, the East-India Uncle,” Legacy 15 (1998): 171—87.
• “Noted Authoress Passes Away.” [Rochester] Republic Democrat, 10 Oct. 1907: 1.
• Jane Tompkins, ""Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History", in Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860, New York: Oxford UP, 1985, pp. 122-146.
• Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790—1860, New York: Oxford UP, 1985.

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