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Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

By Frances Smith Foster (Editor), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558610200
MY HERO recommends this book to readers of all age groups.
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. As The New York Times Book Review notes, “This anthology . . . not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to . . . 20th-century writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.”
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