A brighter coming day : a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader / edited and with an introduction by Frances Smith Foster.
"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volum...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
[1990]
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Summary: | "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover. |
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Physical Description: | xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index. |
ISBN: | 1558610197 9781558610194 1558610200 9781558610200 |