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| Genre/Form: | Bio-bibliography Literary collections Biography Anthologies Biobibliographie Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1988 (OCoLC)571050719 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann Allen Shockley |
| ISBN: | 0816188238 9780816188239 |
| OCLC Number: | 17301006 |
| Description: | xxviii, 465 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Ann Allen Shockley. |
Abstract:
Works of Afro-American women writers reflect the climate of their period in American history.
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