Scholarship and criticism on Judith Merril

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This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Elizabeth Cummins.

• "Judith Merril: A Link with the New Wave -- Then and Now". Extrapolation, v. 36, n. 3 (1995) pp. 198-209.

Michael LeBlanc.

• "Judith Merril and Isaac Asimov's Quest to Save the Future", Foundation, v. 35, n. 98 (2006), pp. 59-73.

Judith Merril.

• "Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life." in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999: pp. 422-442.

Chris Morgan.

• "Judith Merril, 1923- ." in Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Earth Nineteenth Century to the Present Day edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler. (New York: Scribner's, 1982): pp. 433-439.

Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont.

• "Daughter of Earth: Judith Merril and the Intersections of Gender, Science Fiction, and Frontier Mythology", Science Fiction Studies, #107, Volume 36, Part 1 (March 2009)

Emily Pohl-Weary and Judith Merril.

• Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002) (biography of Judith Merril)

Lisa Yaszek

• "Stories 'That Only a Mother' Could Write: Midcentury Peace Activism, Maternalist Politics, and Judith Merril's Early Fiction." NWSA Journal, v. 16, n.2 (2004), pp. 70-97.
• "Not Lost in Space: Revising the Politics of Cold War Womanhood in Judith Merril's Science Fiction" - p.78, in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, edited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (2008), University of South Carolina Press.