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Tillie Olsen

"I Stand Here Ironing"

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Dorothy Minor
Tulsa Community College


The following resources will aid the development of the Unit of Practice on

"I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen.

Sites on Tillie Olsen:

The Nebraska Center for Writers offers the following web site on Tillie Olsen, a Nebraska native.  It provides a number of links to such items as a selection from Olsen's work, an interview with Olsen, and quotations from Olsen's work.
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm

On the next site, readers can post comments on Olsen's work and read what others think about the literature.
http://jollyroger.nbci.com/zz/yauthord/Olsen,Tilliehall/shakespeare1.html

This college newspaper site provides an interview with Tillie Olsen.
http://sundial.csun.edu/sun/97s/042897ne1.htm

The University of California at Santa Cruz provides an article in the University newspaper about Tillie Olsen Day.
http://slugwire.ucsc.edu/weekly/archives/98Mar3/tillie.html

Olsen, Tillie (1913) gives a bibliography on biographical information as well as critical information on Tillie Olsen.
http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/olsen.html

An annotation of  Tell Me a Riddle appears on the site below.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/olsen419-des-.html

A brief biography of Tillie Olsen appears on the web site listed below.
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/173139

The next site looks at Tillie Olsen in a new light:  elementary school PTA president.  It also provides a biography of Olsen as well as other material such as information about her political ideology.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/olsen.htm

Another interview with Tillie Olsen can be found at the next web site.
http://www.flipside.org/vol2/dec99/99de08a.htm
 

General Information Sites

Kingwood College Library maintains the following site on Twentieth Century American History.  Decade by decade, the site provides links to information on the development of industry, education, fads, and fashions.  It also provides links to sites on the Great Depression.
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

The following site provides information on the Lawrence Strike in 1926; it characterizes the conditions under which women and children had to work.
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/law/doc28.htm

A selected bibliography of women's rights and women's issues in literature appears on the next site.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/webinit/fcrc/bibliographies/women.htm

Links to a number of sites related to issues affecting women throughout history can be found on the site below.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Multicultural/Women.html

Peer Review Sites:

Writer's Handbook at
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/PeerReviews.htm offers suggestions for peer reviews.

Peer Reviews at
http://depts.washington.edu/pswrite/peerrev.html provides additional suggestions for conducting peer reviews.

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Last updated:  8 March 2001