title: Archival (Yellow) Fever: The Letters of Kezia Payne DePelchin and E. Kate Heckle
abstract: s graduate seminar on Victorian fiction and historicism.This paper includes my analysis of the DePelchin/Heckle materials, a collection of writings by two female nurses serving in the 1878 Mississippi Valley Yellow Fever Epidemic; a meta-reflection on my experience in the archive; and proposals for two future research projects based my preliminary research.My first project, "Narrativizing Disease," explores how DePelchin in particular sought to establish herself as an authorial figure via elabor
journal: Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (Rice University)