Selected Bibliography
from The State Historical Society of Missouri

Articles in the Missouri Historical Review [REF F550 M691]

  • Brashear, Minnie M. “Missouri Verse and Verse-Writers.” v. 19, no. 1 (October 1924), pp. 64–68.
  • “Historical Notes and Comments.” v. 44, no. 1 (October 1949), pp. 73–74.
  • “Missouri Women in History: Rose O’Neill.” v. 62, no. 4 (July 1968), inside backcover.
  • “A Missourian’s Dolls Amused a Generation of American Children.” v. 48, no. 4 (July 1954), pp. 368–370.
  • Obituary. v. 38, no. 4 (July 1944), p. 493.

Articles from the Newspaper Collection

  • Garside, Frances L. “How Rose O’Neill Made Good.” Kansas City Star. February 18, 1917. p. 3C.
  • Mecher, Louis. “Rose O’Neill Infused Her Kewpies with Spirit of a Rare Personality.” Kansas City Times. April 7, 1944. pp. 1–2C
  • “Rose O’Neill Is Dead.” Kansas City Star. April 6, 1944.
  • “Rose O’Neill Is Put Away by Bonniebrook’s Green Bank.” Springfield Leader and Press. April 7, 1944. p. 1.
  • “Rose O’Neill, Poet-Artist of the Ozarks.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. June 29, 1913. Sunday Supplement, p. 3.

Books Written and Illustrated by Rose O’Neill

  • Garda. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. [I On2ga]
  • The Goblin Woman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. [I On2go]
  • The Kewpie Kutouts. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1914. [I J On2kk In Case]
  • The Kewpies and Dotty Darling. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1912. [I J On2kd In Case]
  • The Kewpies and the Runaway Baby. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. [I J On2kr In Case]
  • The Kewpies Their Book. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913. [I J On2kb In Case]
  • The Lady in the White Veil. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. [I On2la]
  • The Loves of Edwy. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., 1904. [I On2lo]
  • The Master-Mistress. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922. [I On2m]
  • Scootles and Kewpie Doll Book. Akron: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1936. [I J On2sc In Case Oversize]
  • Scootles in Kewpieville. Akron: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1936. [I J On2s In Case Oversize]
  • The Story of Rose O’Neill: An Autobiography. Miriam Formanek-Brunell, ed. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. [F508.1 On2on 1997]

Books Illustrated by Rose O’Neill

  • Caeser, Irving. Sing a Song of Safety. New York: I. Caesar, 1937. [784.6 C116]
  • Fillmore, Parker Hoysted. The Hickory Limb. New York: John Lane Co., 1910. [813 F485]
  • _____. A Little Question of Ladies’ Rights. New York: John Lane Co., 1916. [813.5 F485]
  • O’Neil, George. The Tiny Angel. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1930. [I Onlt]
  • Quinn, Vernon. The Kewpie Primer. New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1916. [I J On2kp In Case]
  • Wilson, Harry Leon. The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., 1903. [289.3 H693]
  • Woman’s Home Companion. Better Babies Bureau. Our Baby’s Book. New York: Woman’s Home Companion, 1914. [I On2o]

Books and Articles about Rose O’Neill

  • Armitage, Shelley. Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O’Neill. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994. [F508.1 On2ar]
  • Christensen, Lawrence O., William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. pp. 584–586. [REF F508 D561]
  • Currie, Stephen. “Rose Cecil O’Neill and Her Kewpies.” American History. February 2005, pp. 24¬¬–26, 70¬–71. [VF: Missouri Artists—Rose O’Neill]
  • Dains, Mary K., ed. Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989. v. 1, pp. 131–132. [REF F508 Sh82 v.1]
  • McCanse, Ralph Alan. Titans and Kewpies: The Life and Art of Rose O’Neill. New York: Vantage Press, 1968. [F508.1 On2m]
  • Nevins, Mona, and Bob Gibbons. “Sweet Monsters”: The Serious Art of Rose O’Neill and Her 1921 Paris Exhibit. Branson, MO: Bonniebrook Historical Society, 1993. [F508.1 On2sw]
  • O’Neill, Rose. The Story of Rose O’Neill: An Autobiography. Miriam Formanek-Brunell, ed. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. [F508.1 On2on 1997]
  • Ruggles, Rowena Godding. The One Rose: Mother of the Immortal Kewpies. 2nd ed. Albany, CA: privately published, 1972. [F508.1 On2r 1972]
  • Stepenoff, Bonnie. “Rose Cecil O’Neill.”American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. v. 16, pp. 733–734. [REF 920 Am37 v. 16]
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