Gilbert, Olive (Personal Name)

nuc86-83268: Narrative of Sojourner Truth [MI] 1881 (hdg. on LCP rept.: Gilbert, Olive)

LC data base, 7-27-87 (Gilbert, Olive; (no usage))

NUC pre-1956 (LC hdg.: Gilbert, Olive; (no usage))

Narrative of Sojourner Truth ... 1991: introduction (a dictated autobiography written by Olive Gilbert, a white abolitionist)

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: a life, a symbol, 1996: pages 103-112 (Narrative of Sojourner Truth; Sojourner Truth was inspired by the success of Frederick Douglass's autobiography to produce her own, which she began dictating to Olive Gilbert in 1845; Gilbert acted as editor as well as scribe, shaping the final narrative; Truth acted as her own publisher, distributor, and bookseller, relying on credit to finance the printing of the first edition)

Stetson, Erlene and Linda David. Glorying in tribulation: the lifework of Sojourner Truth: pages 13-15 ([The] Narrative of Sojourner Truth ..., recorded, shaped, and filled with scribal interpolations by Olive Gilbert; Truth tells her story from the "I" perspective, which is then reflected and commented on by Gilbert in the third person.)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, viewed online February 5, 2018: entry for Sojourner Truth (In the 1840s Truth encountered feminist abolitionism during her stay in the Northampton (Mass.) Association of Education and Industry. There she met Olive Gilbert, who recorded The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, which Truth published in Boston in 1850. During the 1850s and 1860s sales to antislavery and feminist audiences of this narrative provided Truth's main source of income.)