Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933 : an anthology and critical guide /

Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933 : an anthology and critical guide / [edited by] Ann Allen Shockley.

Works of Afro-American women writers reflect the climate of their period in American history.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.
Other Authors: Shockley, Ann Allen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, [1988]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > African American authors > Bio-bibliography.
American literature > Women authors > Bio-bibliography.
African American women > Literary collections.
African American women authors > Biography.
American literature > Women authors.
Women and literature > United States.
African American authors > Biography.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Colonial period to the Civil War, 1746-1862. Chronology of writings
  • Bars fight / Lucy Terry Prince
  • On being brought from Africa to America ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; On imagination ; A funeral poem on the death of C.E., an infant of twelve months / Phillis Wheatley
  • To the first of August ; Advice to young ladies ; Forget me not ; Education / Ann Plato
  • Mrs. Elaw / Zilpha Elaw
  • My call to preach the gospel / Jarena Lee
  • Her return back to Jamaica, and the state of things at that time / Nancy Gardener Prince
  • The slave mother ; The two offers / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Emancipation day on St. Helena Island ; A parting hymn ; The angel's visit / Charlotte L. Forten (Grimké)
  • A new home for me / Harriet E. Adams Wilson
  • The jealous mistress / Harriet Ann Jacobs [Linda Brent, pseud.].
  • Reconstruction to the end of the century, 1868-1899. Chronology of writings. The council-chamber--President Lincoln / Frances Anne Rollin Whipper [Frank A. Rollin, pseud.]
  • The secret history of Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe in New York / Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley
  • De Verne or Herbert--which? / Clarissa Minnie Thompson
  • Churches and religion / Miss Garrison
  • The reunion / Amelia Etta Hall Johnson
  • To Whittier ; The Black Sampson / Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard
  • Joy and sorrow / Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins [Forget-me-not, pseud.]
  • Aunt Lindy : a story founded on real life / Victoria Earle Matthews
  • School-girl notions ; A double standard / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • The higher education of women / Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
  • The general conference at Nashville-- / Amanda Berry Smith
  • Gerarda ; Tribute / Eloise Bibb Thompson
  • Marguerite Earle / Marie Louise Burgess
  • The case stated / Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola, pseud.]
  • Tony's wife ; I sit and sew / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson.
  • Pre-World War I to the New Negro Movement, 1900-1923. Chronology of writings. The sewing-circle / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  • The muse's favor ; Knight of my maiden love / Priscilla Jane Thompson
  • On Morris and other islands ; Thoughts on present conditions / Susie Baker King Taylor
  • Uncle Rube on the race problem / Clara Ann Thompson
  • Verses to my heart's-sister ; The enchanted shell / Henrietta Cordelia Ray
  • Home life / Maud Cuney Hare
  • Voices ; Fancies / Olivia Ward Bush Banks
  • The heart of a woman ; I want to die while you love me ; Old love letters ; Cosmopolite / Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson
  • John Vance / Sarah Lee Levy Lindo McDowell Brown Fleming
  • "Mammy" / Charlotte Hawkins Brown
  • Grass fingers ; A Mona Lisa ; At April / Angelina Weld Grimké
  • The little orphan / Zara Wright
  • Little Silas / Mary Etta Spencer
  • The cloud with a silver lining / Lillian E. Wood.
  • The New Negro Movement, 1924-1933. Chronology of writings. Rejection / Jessie Redmon Fauset Harris
  • The abyss / Nella Marian Larsen Imes.

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