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Eleanor Everest Freer: A Guide to Resources

Starting Your Research

The following resources related to the life and work of Eleanor Everest Freer can be useful when beginning your research. Some materials are available electronically and others are primarily in print. Links to electronic versions of articles and dissertations may be available only via a subscription database, but URLs are provided to aid the location of the content.

The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.

Journal Articles and Dissertations

Unless otherwise noted, the following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available. While direct URLs are provided, some access to full text require a subscription.

Dempf, Linda. "The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago." Notes, vol. 62, no. 4, 2006, pp. 857-903. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4487666 External.

Eversole, Sylvia M. Eleanor Everest Freer: Her Life and Music, City University of New York, Ann Arbor, 1992. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, search.proquest.com/docview/303998886?accountid=12084 External. (digital access available with subscription)

Freer, Eleanor Everest. “American Music and Musicians.” Overland Monthly, vol. 82, June 1924, p. 265. HathiTrust, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000899831n&view=1up&seq=275 External. (digital access available with subscription)

Freer, Eleanor Everest. “One’s Own Vernacular.” Overland Monthly, vol. 82, July 1924, p. 318. HathiTrust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000899831n&view=1up&seq=328 External. (digital access available with subscription)

Freer, Eleanor Everest. “Woes of a Woman Composer.” Overland Monthly, vol. 82, Oct. 1924, p. 458. HathiTrust, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000899831n&view=1up&seq=468 External. (digital access available with subscription)

“Obituary.” Etude, vol. 61, Feb. 1943, p. 73.

Meltzer, Charles Henry. "The Enchantment of Grand Opera: Why the Lyric Drama Takes Its Place in the Forefront of the Arts." Arts & Decoration, vol. 17, Sept. 1922, p. 336, 366. HathiTrust, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026672264&view=1up&seq=362 External. (digital access available with subscription)

"Our Own Times." The Reader; an illustrated monthly magazine, vol. 7, Jan. 1906, p. 200-213. HathiTrust, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028058801&view=1up&seq=289 External. (digital access available with subscription)

Rubin, Emanuel. "Jeannette Meyers Thurber and the National Conservatory of Music." American Music, vol. 8, no. 3, 1990, pp. 294-325. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3052098 External.

Warburton, Thomas Andrew. “Eleanor Everest Freer and the American Opera Movement.” Opera Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 1996, pp. 2–11.

Books from the Library of Congress Catalog

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.