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The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women WritersGeneral Editor: HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker have come to dominate the larger African-American literary landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and nurtured the black women's literarytradition--nineteenth-century African-American women--ha...

A rediscovered novel by the author of the first published short story to be written by an African-American author. Whilst the text is in parts incomplete, this remains an important work by the renowned lecturer, activist and writer whose career spanned over 60 years.

A rediscovered novel by the author of the first published short story to be written by an African-American author. Whilst the text is in parts incomplete, this remains an important work by the renowned lecturer, activist and writer whose career spanned over 60 years.

Winner of the College Language Association Book AwardFrances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been wri...