Give us each day : the diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson / edited with a critical introduction and notes by Gloria T. Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935.

Contributor:

Hull, Akasha Gloria, editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935--Diaries.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935.

Authors, American--20th century--Diaries.

Authors, American.

African American authors.

African American authors--Diaries.

Genre:

Diaries.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

480 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1984.

Contents:

I. 1921 (July 29-December 31) Forty-six years old and nowhere yet

II. 1926-27 (November 8, 1926-December 31, 1927) Deliverance from this House of Bondage

III. 1928 (January 1-December 31) Battling with trains, producing literature

IV. 1929 (January 1-November 27) To float on and on into sweet oblivion

V. 1930 (January 1-December 31) One glorious fling-freedom, anyhow

VI. 1931 (January 1-December 31) This damn waiting, waiting, waiting.

Notes:

"The text of this book is composed in Electra, with display type set in Baskerville."

"This diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson is only the second one by a Black woman that we have had the good fortune to see. Charlotte Forten's 'Journal' ... has been the only book-length one available."--Introduction.

Contains chronology (pages 467-469),

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0393018938 :

OCLC:

10697267