Byrd Gibbens

Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens (June 5, 1936 – December 20, 2023) was an American historian and professor.[1]

Life

Gibbens was originally from Tyler, Texas, where she was born on June 5, 1936; she grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She became a nun in the Sisters of St. Joseph, but left the order in 1977.[1]

As of 2002 she was a professor of English at the University of New Mexico.[2] She also taught at the University of Arkansas.[1]

She died on December 20, 2023.[1]

Selected publications

  • This is a Strange Country: Letters of a Westering Family, 1880-1906 (1988, University of New Mexico Press: ISBN 9780826311078)[3]
  • Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (2002, U of Nebraska Press: ISBN 9780803292956[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Elizabeth Gibbens obituary". Times-Picayune. May 11, 2024. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  2. ^ "Far from Home - University of Nebraska Press".
  3. ^ Review of This is a Strange Country:
    • Susan Albertine (1992), "Heart's Expression: The Middle-Class Language of Love in Late Nineteenth-Century Correspondence", American Literary History, JSTOR 489942
  4. ^ Reviews of Far from Home:
    • G. Thomas Edwards (1990), The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, JSTOR 40491094
    • Gloria Ricci Lothrop (1990), The Journal of American History, JSTOR 2079264
    • Paula Mitchell Marks (1991), The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, JSTOR 30240178
    • David Wyatt (1991), "Hard facts in the west: beyond the american sublime", The Virginia Quarterly Review, JSTOR 26438200
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