Bibliography
(annotated)
Primary Sources:
Champney, Elizabeth W. Three Vassar Girls in The Holy Land. Boston: Estes and Laurait, 1892.
Much like a Harlequin novel, Vassar
Girls is a love story, set in the Holy Land, which addresses common
manifestations of anti-semitism in a travelogue format written to entertain and
inform adolescent girls.
A project of Southern Illinois University, this internet version of the Midland Monthly describes in detail the events leading up to the courts martial of Thomas Knox and the subsequent revocation of his conviction by Abraham Lincoln.
Johnson, B.W. Young Folks in Bible Lands: Including Travels in Asia Minor, Excursions to Tarsus, Antioch and Damascus, and the Tour of Palestine. With Historical Explanations. St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, 1892.
A comparative text written by a Christian pastor which describes the Holy Land for boys and girls.
Knox, Thomas Wallace. Backsheesh! or Life and Adventures in the
Orient. Hartford, Conn.: A. D.
Worthington; Chicago: A. G. Nettleton, 1875.
Knox’s travel diary of his first
trip to the Holy Land (1873-74) presented in an entertaining and informative
manner.
_____. The Boy Travelers in the Far East, Part
Fourth: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. New York: Harper, 1883.
This primary text brings the Boy Travelers
and their chaperones to Egypt and the Holy Land. Based on Knox’s trips during 1873-74 and 1878.
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The Boy Travelers on The Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey
with Henry M. Stanley “Through the Dark Continent.” New York: Harper, 1887.
Knox’s incorporation of Henry M.
Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent into The Boy Travelers series.
Secondary
Sources:
Foner, Eric, and John A. Garraty, eds. “The Reader’s Companion to American History” (Houghton Mifflin, 1991) as found on The History Channel, http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35686, 3/27/2003.
A definition of Social Darwinism.
The History Channel, http://www.historychannel.com/perl/timeline, 3/27/2003.
An Internet source, which provides significant world events in a decade-by-decade timeline format.
This alphabetical listing of authors and publications lists all of Thomas Knox’s articles published in magazines between 1868 and 1884. Many of these articles were later compiled into books. An excellent source of information on authors.
An e-mail response to a query looking for references to Knox in Denver area newspapers from the mid-1800s.
A personal note with attachments in response to a query for references to Knox in the Pembroke, New Hampshire area.
Shadur, Joseph. Young Travelers to Jerusalem: an Annotated Survey of American
and English Juvenile Literature on the Holy Land 1785-1940. Ramat Gan, Israel: The Ingeborg Rennert
Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar Ilan University, 1999.
An annotated survey of literature
focusing on youthful readers. Used for
comparison of Knox to other writers of the same period who wrote on the Holy
Land for juveniles.
Virtualology ™. Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, 2001: http://www.famousamericans.net/thomaswallaceknox/, 1/31/2003.
An on-line biography of Knox.
A compendium of biographies of American travel writers from 1850-1915. Included with the biographies are listings of publication data for all the author’s books.