Eliza Calvert Hall
Published Work

 
 
Note:
This compilation of work by Lida Calvert Obenchain ("Eliza Calvert Hall") cannot be considered complete. In addition to some unpublished poems and essays, her correspondence makes reference to at least two dramatizations of her stories and to unspecified articles published in magazines and journals. In particular, her articles written on behalf of woman suffrage have not been completely collected. Lida herself did not keep track of them because, for her, they were "of no importance from a literary point of view."
 
 


Poems

"Galatea," Scribner's Monthly 19(1): 34 (November 1879)
"A Lesson in Mythology," Scribner's Monthly 19(2): 320 (December 1879)
"An International Episode," Scribner's Monthly 19(6): 952 (April 1880)
"Compensation," Scribner's Monthly 20(6): 852 (October 1880)
"Felicissima," Atlantic Monthly 47(284): 784 (June 1881)
"Her Choice," Century Magazine 27(3): 462 (January 1884)
"One Way of Love," Century Magazine 28(1): 122 (May 1884)
"The Unspoken Word," Harper's Monthly 83(498): 918 (November 1891)
"Queen Bess," Childhood (February 1893)
"Song of the Indian Corn," Arena 8: 113 (June 1893)
"A Forecast," Kate Field's Washington, July 26, 1893, p. 55
"The White City," Kate Field's Washington, October 24, 1893, p. 215
"A Modest Request," Kate Field's Washington, December 27, 1893, p. 416
"Faith," Kate Field's Washington, March 7, 1894, p. 196
"Hidden Music," Arena 10(56): 255 (July 1894)
"Reasons," Kate Field's Washington, September 12, 1894, p. 167
"Night-Blooming Cereus," Kate Field's Washington, April 13, 1895, p. 228
"My Enemy," New York Independent, 1896; Dallas Morning News, November 7, 1920
"A Modern Psyche," A Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles Dudley Warner, vol. 40 (New York: International Society, 1897), p. 16622
"Enlisted," Truth (1898); repr. Wisconsin Memorial Day Annual, comp. O. S. Rice (Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., 1912)
"Today," Arena 22: 403 (September 1899)
"The Lombardy Poplar," Lippincott's (June 1899)
"When Mamma Makes Bread," Woman's Journal, October 14, 1899, p. 323
"Undecided," Munsey's (July 1905)
"Motherhood," Munsey's (February 1906)
"The Dilemma," Pearson's Magazine (December 1908)
"The Linden," Kentucky Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin (1910)
"A Cry," Louisville Arts Club pamphlet (January 29, 1924)
"The Drum," Louisville Arts Club pamphlet (January 29, 1924)
"A Disciple of Riley," St. Nicholas 53: 83 (November 1925)
"The Pack," (Louisville) Courier-Journal, August 16, 1931
"A Cry," (Louisville) Courier-Journal, September 25, 1960
"Sunday Afternoon," Childhood (date unknown)

Articles and Essays

"Why Democratic Women Want the Ballot, Woman's Tribune, December 17, 1892, p. 250
Sketch of Henry Timrod, Worthington's Magazine, July 1893
"The Sin of Unselfishness," Kate Field's Washington, March 28, 1894, p. 196
"Medical Co-Education in Kentucky," Woman's Journal, April 21, 1894, p. 128
"Woman and Nature, Kate Field's Washington, August 1, 1894, p. 77
"Edith Thomas's Protest," Woman's Journal, August 11, 1894, pp. 254-55
"The Omniscience of Ignorance," Kate Field's Washington, August 15, 1894, p. 100
"The Greek Definition of Idiot," Woman's Tribune, August 18, 1894, p. 141
"Real Southern Chivalry," Woman's Journal, September 15, 1894, p. 292
"Second-Hand People," Kate Field's Washington, October 24, 1894, p. 261
"Bowling Green and the Civil War," (written 1894), Filson Club History Quarterly 11(4): 241-51 (October 1937)
"Woman in Politics," Kentucky Leader, January 10, 1895
"A Clerical Defamer of Women," Woman's Journal, January 12, 1895, p. 15
"Are Political Women Attractive to Men?" Woman's Journal, February 9, 1895
"On the Duty of Calling a Spade a Spade," Kate Field's Washington, February 9, 1895, p. 86
"Charlotte Perkins Stetson," (Louisville) Courier-Journal, March 27, 1895, sect. 2, p. 3
"Charlotte Perkins Stetson," Woman's Tribune, June 22, 1895, p. 97
"A Point of Honor," Woman's Journal, June 22, 1895, p. 194
"An Object Lesson on Political Influence," Woman's Tribune, August 3, 1895, p. 113
"Why Democratic Women Want the Ballot," Woman's Tribune, October 12, 1895, p. 135
"Woman Suffrage a Principle," Woman's Journal, February 29, 1896, p. 72
"The Opinions of 'John,'" Womankind, June 1896, p. 5
"Heroism of Cuban Women," Woman's Journal, August 22, 1896, p. 266
"So Fur From the Big Road," Womankind, August 1896, pp. 4-5; Woman's Journal, September 5, 1896, p. 282
"The Pioneer Women of Kentucky," Woman's Journal, September 5, 1896, p. 288
"A Memorial to Henry Timrod," Womankind, October 1896, p. 5
"A New Club," Womankind, October 1896, p. 6
"The Egotistic Sex," Womankind, December 1896, p. 5
"An Educational Campaign," Womankind, February 1897, p. 4
"A Higher Physical Life for Women," Womankind, May 1897, p. 5
"The Passing of the Periodicals," Womankind, May 1897, p. 6
"Bits of Theosophy," Womankind, May 1897, p. 6
"A Call and a Response," Womankind, May 1897, p. 11
"The Mothers' Congress," Womankind, May 1897, p. 12
"The Evolution of Justice," Womankind, August 1897, pp. 8-9 (part 1)
"The Evolution of Justice," Womankind, October 1897, pp. 6-7 (part 2)
"New Domestic Literature," New York Times, October 17, 1897
"The Rights of Wives," New York Times, October 24, 1897
"Women and Their Ideals," New York Times, October 31, 1897
"The Typical Woman's Page, New York Times, November 7, 1897
"Not a Question of Years," New York Times, November 14, 1897
"Extravagance a Virtue," New York Times, November 28, 1897
"Church Wedding Crushes," New York Times, December 5, 1897
"As to Christmas Presents," New York Times, December 19, 1897
"On the Sins of Economy," New York Times, December 26, 1897
"The Art of Hospitality," New York Times, December 26, 1897
"The Myth of Conservatism," Woman's Journal, January 15, 1898, p. 22
"Women and Literature," New York Times, January 16, 1898
"Woman's Right to Be Ugly," New York Times, January 30, 1898
"Women's Attitude Towards War," Woman's Journal, August 13, 1898, p. 257
"The Latest Thing in 'Patriotism,'" Woman's Journal, December 31, 1898, p. 417
"No Kansans Kissed Hobson," Woman's Journal, January 21, 1899, p. 18
"The Philippine War," Woman's Journal, June 3, 1899, p. 169
"The Clay Family," Woman's Journal, June 3, 1899, p. 170
"A Kentucky Woman on Kentucky Politics," Woman's Journal, April 21, 1900, p. 121
"A Plea for a Little Bit of Common Sense," National American Woman Suffrage
Association Political Equality Series, April 1900
"The Crisis We Face," The Public, August 4, 1900, pp. 269-70
"An Open Letter to Women," Woman's Journal, December 8, 1900, p. 390
"What Fools These Mortals Be!" Woman's Journal, February 9, 1901, p. 44
"The Evolution of Mental Science," Metaphysical Magazine, March 1901, pp. 173-82
"The Emotional Sex," Woman's Standard, April 1901, p. 1
"The Poetry of Woman Suffrage," Woman's Standard, November 1901, p. 1
"A Model Commencement Address," Woman's Journal, June 28, 1902, p. 208
"More Despotic Than Europe," Woman's Journal, August 16, 1902, p. 258
"A Fool Notion," Woman's Standard, August 1903, p. 1
"The Climax of Political Corruption," Woman's Standard," February 1904, p. 3
"Suffrage Work and Other Work," Woman's Journal, April 16, 1904, p. 122
"A Hopeful Sign of the Times," Woman's Standard, June 1904, p. 3
"Clubs and Suffrage Association," Woman's Standard, August 1904, p. 3
"The Democratic Convention Recognizes the Rights of Women," Woman's Standard, August 1904, p. 4
"Louisiana Has Been Having a Local Option Contest. . .," Woman's Standard, October 1904, p. 4
"A Woman's Home," Hartford (Ky.) Herald, October 12, 1904, p. 1
"The Seeds of Despotism," Woman's Standard, January 1905, p. 4
"The Woman on the Pedestal," Woman's Standard, September 1905, p. 4
"Grover Cleveland's Democracy," Woman's Standard, November 1905, p. 4
"The Hired Girl Problem," Bowling Green, Ky. newspaper, ca. November 1905
"Counting and Voting," Woman's Journal, December 30, 1905, p. 209
"God, Good and Evil," Metaphysical Magazine, June 1906, pp. 238-46
"Woman's Influence," Hartford (Ky.) Herald, November 14, 1906
"Captivated Calves," Woman's Journal, January 19, 1907, p. 9
"Sex and Society" (book review), Woman's Journal, April 20, 1907, p. 62
"Kentucky," Woman's Journal, June 22, 1907, p. 100
"Conservatism in India," Woman's Standard, March 1908, p. 3
"The 'Unanswerable Argument' Against Woman Suffrage," Woman's Journal, April 11, 1908, p. 57
"Why I Wrote 'Sally Ann's Experience,'" Cosmopolitan, July 1908, pp. 163-67
"Indirect Influence," National American Woman Suffrage Association Political Equality
Series, 1910(?)
"As to School Suffrage," Bowling Green Messenger, [summer 1912]
"The Romance of Your Grandmother's Quilt," McCall's, February 1913, p. 18
"The Burden of the Ballot," Woman's Journal, January 15, 1916, p. 18
"Madison Cawein, Southern Poet," Dallas Times-Herald, December 10, 1922
"Education Does Not Necessarily Mean Mere Completion of School," Dallas Times-
Herald, December 31, 1922
"What Becomes of the Time," Dallas Times-Herald, September 16, 1923
"Kentucky's Homecoming," Dallas Times-Herald, 1924
"A Notable Collection of Textiles," House Beautiful, January 1927, p. 54
Description of 1856 Virginia Ivy quilt, The Handicrafter, September/October 1931
"The Aggravating Sex," Lexington Leader, date unknown

Stories

"Two Loves," Cosmopolitan, November 1904
"A Little Story of the Other World, the Men She Had Seen in Her Dreams," Life, October 17, 1907

Collected stories in Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907):

"Sally Ann's Experience" (Cosmopolitan, July 1898)
"The New Organ" (Cosmopolitan, February 1899)
"Aunt Jane's Album (Cosmopolitan, February 1900)
"Sweet Day of Rest" (Cosmopolitan, December 1904)
"Milly Baker's Boy"
"The Baptizing at Kittle Creek"
"How Sam Amos Rode in the Tournament"
"Mary Andrews' Dinner Party"
"The Gardens of Memory"

Collected stories in The Land of Long Ago (1909):

"Aunt Jane Goes A-Visiting" (Cosmopolitan, September 1907)
"A Ride to Town" (Cosmopolitan, April 1908)
"The House That Was A Wedding Fee" (Cosmopolitan, June 1908)
"The Courtship of Miss Amaryllis" (Cosmopolitan, September 1908)
"The Marriage Problem in Goshen" (Cosmopolitan, November 1908)
"The Watch-Meeting" (Cosmopolitan, January 1909)
"An Eye For An Eye" (Cosmopolitan, April 1909)
"The Reformation of Sam Amos" (Cosmopolitan, June 1909)
"In War Time" (Cosmopolitan, October 1909)

Collected stories in Clover and Blue Grass (1916):

"How Parson Page Went to the Circus" (Cosmopolitan, July 1910)
"Old Mahogany"
"Millstones and Stumbling-Blocks"
"One Taste of the Old Time"
"Mary Crawford's Chart"
"One Day in Spring"

"Grandmother's Debut," Woman's Home Companion, December 1919
"The Horoscope," Woman's Home Companion, January 1922
"The Look Without Words," Symposium, date unknown

Books:

Aunt Jane of Kentucky (Boston: Little, Brown, 1907)
The Land of Long Ago (Boston: Little, Brown, 1909)
To Love and To Cherish (Boston, Little Brown, 1911)
A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets (Boston: Little, Brown, 1912)
Clover and Blue Grass (Boston: Little, Brown, 1916)

 

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