Jessica Workman
Jessica is 25 year old graduate student in the Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program at the University of Central Florida. Her interests include early American literature, women writers, young adult fiction, classic television, and cooking. While she writes for Suite101, she is also writing her thesis, which is tentatively titled, "Conduct Fiction and the Early American Novel: Facilitating Education through Fiction in the Works of Hannah Webster Foster, Judith Sargent Murray, and Susanna Haswell Rowson."
Suite101 Editor's Choice Award Winning Articles
Review of The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Review of Raven's Deep by Jane Jordan
Published Articles
"Forming a National Identity: Reconciling Genres in Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel." The Journal of Research on Women and Gender 1 (2010): 116 - 35.
Conference Presentations
"Transatlantic Displacement and the Formation of a National Identity in the Writing of Susanna Haswell Rowson." Catherine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium. Salem, Massachusetts. June 17-20, 2010.
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association. Member, 2009 - present.
Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Member, 2009 - present.
Catherine Maria Sedgwick Society. Member, 2010 - present.
Latest Articles
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Review of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich gives us One for the Money, the first in a series of crime novels featuring bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum.
Nov 11, 2010
- Jessica Workman
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Review of Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb's brilliant high fantasy novel, is the first in the thrilling Farseer Trilogy.
Jul 14, 2010
- Jessica Workman
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Review of Jane Jordan's Blood and Ashes
Blood and Ashes is the stunning sequel to Jane Jordan's debut novel, Ravens Deep. Follow Madeline and Darius on their quest for immortal love.
May 26, 2010
- Jessica Workman
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Review of The First Four Years
The First Four Years is the ninth and final book in the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years is the eighth book in the Little House on the Prairie series that follows Laura from ages 16 to 18 and her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of Little Town on the Prairie
Readers have followed the Ingalls family from Wisconsin all the way to South Dakota. Now read about them and their social life in town as Laura grows up and finds a beau
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter is the most exciting out of the nine of the books in the Little House on the Prairie series. It leaves readers wondering if the Ingalls family can survive
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura is quickly growing up in By the Shores of Silver Lake. Her family leaves Minnesota for the unsettled Dakota Territory where her Pa helps build a new town.
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of On the Banks of Plum Creek
On the Banks of Plum Creek follows the Ingalls family from Kansas to Minnesota, where they make their new home.
Jan 7, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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Review of Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy tells the story of Almanzo Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's future husband, and his life on a farm in New York. It is the third book in the series
Jan 6, 2009
- Jessica Workman
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