 Jean Fagan Yellin examined the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on Crafts and Shelley Fisher Fishkin examined the influence of William Wells Brown's well-known play "The Escape, or, A Leap for Freedom", casting light on Crafts's class and race consciousness.William Gleason argued that "The Bondwoman's Narrative" is deeply invested in the politics of architectural form and reveals a sophisticated sense of the relationship between race and architecture.In addition to Hollis Robbins's work on the borrowings from Charles Dickens and Walter Scott, Catherine Keyser focuses on Crafts's borrowings from Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", making a thorough textual-critical case for her literary transformations.