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Works of literature (mostly 19th century fictional) focused on the antebellum Shenandoah Valley
- A History of the Valley of Virginia (1833), by Samuel Kercheval
- A Night at Greenway Court (1896), Willa Cather
- A Romance of the Valley of Virginia (1892), by Emma Lyon Bryan
- Address to the People of West Virginia; Shewing that Slavery is Injurious to the Public welfare…. (1847), by Henry Ruffner
- Aunt Dorothy: An Old Plantation Story (1890), by Margaret Junkin Preston
- Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of War (1865), Margaret Junkin Preston
- Behind the Blue Ridge. A Homely Narrative. (1887), by Frances Courtenay Baylor
- Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse (1887), by Margaret Junkin Preston
- Daisy Swan, A Flower of Shenandoah (1865), by John Malone Dagnall
- Echoes from the Glen in Divers Key (1904), by William Page Carter
- Fairfax; Or, The Master of Greenway Court. A Chronicle of the Valley of the Shenandoah (1868), John Esten Cooke
- Flowers of Hope and Memory: A Collection of Poems (1860), Cornelia Jane Mathews Jordan
- Frescati: A Page From Virginia History (1909), by Nettie Gray Daingerfield
- Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems (1847), Philip Pendleton Cooke
- Hilt to Hilt; Or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864 (1868), by John Esten Cooke
- Judith Bensaddi (1841), by Henry Ruffner
- Leather Stockings and Silk; Or, Hunter John Myers in his Times: A Story of The Valley of Virginia (1854), John Esten Cooke
- Our Cousin Veronica; Or, Scenes and Adventures over the Blue Ridge (1855), Mary Elizabeth Wormeley
- Our Mammy and other stories (1906), by Henrietta G. Daingerfield
- Shenandoah: A Military Comedy in Four Acts (1897), by Bronson Howard
- Shenandoah: Love and War in the Valley of Virginia, 1861-1865 (1912), by Henry Tyrell
- Silverwood: A Book of Memories (1856), Margaret Junkin Preston
- Surry of Eagle's Nest, or, The Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia (1866), John Esten Cooke
- Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832/1853), by John Pendleton Kennedy
- Tales of an American Landlord; Containing Sketches of Life South of the Potomac (1824), by (anonymously) George Tucker
- That Dear Old Sword (1903), by Nettie Gray Daingerfield (limited online text)
- The Annals of Harper's Ferry (1869), by Josephus, Jr. (Joseph Barry)
- The Blackwater Chronicle – A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia (1853), by Philip Pendleton Kennedy
- The Boys of Greenway Court (1896), by Hezekiah Butterworth
- The Holcombes. A Story of Virginia Home Life (1871), by Mary Tucker Magill
- The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns, by a Virginian, Vol. I (1834), by William Alexander Caruthers
- The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns, by a Virginian, Vol. II (1834), by William Alexander Caruthers
- The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe, a Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion (1835/1845), by William Alexander Caruthers
- The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke
- The Mountaineer (1823), by Conrad Speece, D.D.
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney
- The Valley Campaigns – Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the War Between the States (1914), by Thomas Almond Ashby
- The Valley of the Shenandoah; Or, Memoirs of the Graysons (1825), by George Tucker
- The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems (1869), by Daniel Bedinger Lucas (Editor)
- Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia, And Tom Without One in Boston (1853), by John White Page
- Under the Pruning Knife: A Story of Southern Life (1888), by Mary Tucker Magill (no online text)
- Union Speech; Delivered at Kanawha Salines, Va. (1856), by Henry Ruffner
- Ups and Downs of a Confederate Soldier (1940), by James Huffman (no online text)
- Virginia Illustrated; Containing a Visit to the Virginia Canaan, And the Adventures of Porte Crayon and his Cousins (1857/1871), by Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother)
- Women, Or, Chronicles of the Late War (1871), by Mary Tucker Magill
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Posted on April 18, 2011 by Robert Moore
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