A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
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Book Overview
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558610200
ISBN13:9781558610200
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Feminist Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
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Comprehensive compilation with historical info
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I recently did research on Ms. Harper, and this book was so good, I actually added it to my collection. This is the only book that has all her work in one place. Ms. Foster also does a nice job of setting up each chapter with information about the history going on at the time of original publication. The only drawback, very slight, is that Harper's best known novel, Iola Leroy, isn't reprinted in full here, there are only excerpts. Overall a great way to get to know an African American woman author who has unfortunately been forgotten for too long.
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