A brighter coming day : a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader / edited and with an introduction by Frances Smith Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911

Contributor:

Foster, Frances Smith, editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women authors.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

Abolitionists--Maryland--Baltimore--Literary collections.

Abolitionists.

Maryland--Baltimore.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 416 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by The Talman Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990.

Contents:

Part One: 1853-1864. Letters; Poetry; Essays and Speeches; Fiction

Part Two: 1865-1875. Letters; Poetry; Speeches; Fiction

Part Three: 1876-1892. Poetry; Essays and Speeches; Fiction

Part Four: 1893-1911. Letters; Poetry; Essays.

Notes:

"Text design: Paula Martinac."

"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 Coming Day,' 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 ... and a generous group of letters that evoke her daily struggles and triumphs as a black woman in the public world."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

1558610197 :

1558610200

OCLC:

20632113