Fanny Butcher: Sources and Further Reading
Sources
Butcher, Fanny. "Fanny Butcher Selects 10 Best Novels of 1940: Fanny Butcher Selects 10 Best Novels of Year." Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963), December 4, 1940. https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/fanny-butcher-selects-10-best-novels-1940/docview/176493947/se-2?accountid=14553.
Butcher, Fanny. Many Lives—One Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. http://archive.org/details/manylivesonelove00fann.
Hast, Adele. “Bookwomen Building Chicago.” Caxtonian, June 25, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020625055605/http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/2002/May/bookwomen.htm.
Heise, Kenan. “Fanny Butcher; Knew the Giants of Literature.” Chicago Tribune. May 17, 1987. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-05-17-8702060444-story.html.
Schultz, Rima Lunin and Adele Hast, eds. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Wellman, Jennifer. “Compulsory Conrad: Fanny Butcher and the Gender of Literary Criticism.” Studia Neophilologica 85, no. sup1 (June 1, 2013): 117–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2012.751671.
Further Reading
Read Butcher’s 1972 memoir, Many Lifes—One Love (available online via Internet Archive).
Learn more about the history of the Chicago Tribune (available online via Internet Archive).
View the Fanny Butcher photos and the Fanny Butcher papers (via CARLI/the Newberry Library).
Read through the pamphlet “Ports of a thousand romances: a reader's guide for the round-the-world travelers,” written by Butcher in 1920 (available online via Internet Archive).
For University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign affiliates, many of Butcher’s reviews can be found in ProQuest’s Historical Newspaper database. For non-affiliates, local public or academic libraries may offer access to this database or similar resources, such as Newspapers.com.