The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

WORKS ABOUT - Menken, Adah

Falk, Bernard. The Naked Lady, or, Storm over Adah: A Biography of Adah Isaacs Menken. London: Hutchinson & Co. (1934-1-1).
Odell, George C.D.. Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VIII (1865-1870). New York:Columbia University Press. (1936-1-1).
Pattee, Fred Louis. The Feminine Fifties. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated. (1940-1-1).
Lesser, Allen. Enchanting Rebel; The Secret of Adah Isaacs Menken. New York: Beechhurst Press. (1947-1-1).
Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: MacMillan. (1955-1-1).
Holloway, Emory. Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman. New York: Vantage Press. (1960-1-1).
Whitman, Walt. "Letter to Henry Clapp, Jr., June 12, 1860." Walt Whitman: The Correspondence. New York: New York University Press. (1961-1-1).
Lewis, Paul. Queen of the Plaza: A Biography of Adah Issacs Menken. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. (1964-1-1).
Hahn, Emily. Romantic Rebels; An Informal History of Bohemianism in America. Boston; Houghton Mifflin. (1967-1-1).
Gabor, Mark. The Pin-Up: A Modest History. New York: Universe Books. (1972-1-1).
Lalor, Eugene T.. "The Literary Bohemians of New York City in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." The Literary Bohemians of New York City in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Ph.D. Dissertation, St. John's University. (1977-1-1).
Lalor, Eugene. "Whitman among the New York Literary Bohemians: 1859–1862." Walt Whitman Review. (1979-1-1). 131-145.
Miller, Tice L.. Bohemians and Critics: American Theatre Criticism in the Nineteenth Century. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. (1981-1-1).
Mankowitz, Wolf. Mazeppa: The Lives, Loves, and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken. New York: Stein and Day. (1982-1-1).
Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. (1984-1-1).
Confran, John. "The Identity of Adah Isaacs Menken: A Theatrical Mystery Solved." Theatre Survey. (1990-5-1). 47-54.
Allen, Robert Clyde. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (1991-1-1).
Hyman, Martin D.. "'Where the Drinkers & Laughers Meet': Pfaff's: Whitman's Literary Lair." Seaport. (1991-4-1). 56-61.
Stansell, Christine. "Whitman at Pfaff's: Commercial Culture, Literary Life and New York Bohemia at Mid-Century." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. (1993-1-1). 107-126.
Dudden, Faye E.. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press. (1994-1-1).