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I Stand Here Ironing

 

Published in 1956 in Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle collection, “I Stand Here Ironing” is probably Olsen’s most famous short story.  The story is written as a monologue by an unnamed mother as she reflects on the toll that poverty and abandonment must have taken on the childhood of her nineteen-year old daughter Emily.  It portrays the difficulties faced by young mothers as they try to bring up children by themselves.

 

 

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

 

  • PS3565 .L82
  • PS228 .R34

 

 

Circulating Books – A Selected List

 

  • Frye, Joanne S.  Tillie Olsen: A Study of the Short Fiction.  1995.

                     Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z65 1995

  • Coiner, Constance.  Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. 1998.

                    Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z613 1998

  • Faulkner, Mara. Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen. 1993.   

                  Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z64 1993

  • Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle. 1994.

                   Call Number: PS3565 .L82 T45 1994

  •  Pearlman, Mickey and Abby Werlock. Tillie Olsen. 1991.

                     Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z84 1991

  • Roberts, Nora Ruth. Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst. 1996.

                   Call Number: PS228 .R34 R63 1996

 

 

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

 

  • I Stand Here Ironing (Keyword)
  • Olsen, Tillie (Subject)

 

 

Reference Materials

 

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism – Call Number: REF PN771 .C59

o     Vol. 13, pg. 432

o   Vol. 114, pgs.  192-223, 231-245

  • Critical Survey of Short Fiction (2nd Rev. Ed.) - Call Number: REF PN3321 .C7 2001

o   Vol. 5, pg. 1845

  • Short Story Criticism –  Call Number: REF PN3321 .S5

o     Vol. 11, pgs. 163-164, 166, 171, 177-80, 188, 190, 192-93, 195, 197

o   Vol. 103, pgs. 103, 144, 146, 149, 151-53, 160, 190, 195-97, 203-08, 216-16, 225-26, 235-35, 240, 243, 256

  • Short Stories for Students – Call Number: REF PN3330 .S386

o   Vol. 1, pgs. 94-107

 

 

Research Databases

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  • Academic Search Complete
  • JSTOR
  • Literature Resources from Gale

 

 

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