Online Stoddard Texts

Elizabeth Stoddard’s 1861 novel The Morgesons can be found at Project Gutenberg. Other works by Elizabeth Stoddard on Project Gutenberg include Lemourne Versus Huell and Poems.

Stoddard’s 1865 novel Two Men can be downloaded at Google Books

Although I know that the University of Michigan has Stoddard’s 1867 novel Temple House on microfilm, I have not found it online yet.

2 Responses to “Online Stoddard Texts”


  1. 1 William Patrick Wend January 17, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    The Morgesons is on my “Summer 08″ reading list. I saw a 400+ page edition (with additional “published and unpublished” material!) on Amazon under $5. I am looking forward to reading it after our conversations!

  2. 2 Toni Magyar January 17, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    The “published and unpublished” collection was, for awhile, the main text for classroom instruction. Now that there are multiple Penguin printings of The Morgesons (same editors btw), the Penguin is the most common. The change is somewhat unfortunate; however, it is understandable that professors teaching The Morgesons will not likely have time in their schedule to teach more Stoddard, so, it does make sense that the Penguin prevails for pragmatic reasons. I think you will find, when you get to it, the selection “From “Our Lady Correspondent”’s Column, Daily Alta California” in the above collection quite interesting!


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