Postgraduate studies of her life and poetry
2007
جميلة العلايلي: حياتها وشعرها، دراسة فنية
Defended January 2008; supervised by Prof. Shaaban Mohamed Morsi.
2025
Studies and papers that discuss her work
ملامح التيار الوجداني في شعر منيرة توفيق: دراسة تحليلية
Annals of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls, Alexandria (Al-Azhar University), vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 281–360
Mentions Gamila El Alaily among the pioneers of women's emotional poetry.
أدب المقالة عند جميلة العلايلي: دراسة نقدية
Journal of the Faculty of Arabic Language in Mansoura (Al-Azhar University), issue 41, no. 3, pp. 1167–1262
Women and Memory Forum, Cairo
Discusses Gamila El Alaily at length as a founder of women's romantic poetry.
Critics and historians who wrote about her
قضايا الشعر المعاصر
Names her as Egypt's pioneering woman poet and notes her 1937 preface to Abd al-Qadir Rashid al-Nasiri's diwan «ألحان الألم».
Discusses her 1937 article in al-Misriyya.
وديع فلسطين يتحدث عن أعلام عصره، الجزء الأول
Link: cited in Osama Amer's thesis.
الرومانسية العربية بين الأصالة والتبعية: دراسة في شعر مغموري أبولو
Includes an analysis of her poetry; her portrait is on the cover.
Encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries with an entry on her
Claire Buck (ed.) · Bloomsbury, London, 1992
Link: cited on English Wikipedia.
إتمام الأعلام
Nizar Abaza & Muhammad Riyad al-Malih · Dar Sader, Beirut, 1999
Radwa Ashour, Ferial J. Ghazoul & Hasna Reda-Mekdashi (eds.) · American University in Cairo Press, 2008
English edition of «ذاكرة للمستقبل: موسوعة الكاتبة العربية» (2004).
