Barone, D., 2006. “’We’ve always been different’: Louisa Ermelino’s Spring Street trilogy and Italian American women’s writing”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 48: 1, pp. 19-32.

An exploration of the resurfacing of Italian-American women writers focusing particularly on the novelist Louisa Ermerlino and the impact and positioning of the Spring Street trilogy.

Marotta, M. O., 1999. Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Review of Italian History. London: Associated University Press.

A rare text that explores Italian women’s writing. Marotta explores the preoccupation with history and the use of historical fiction by Italian women writers.