Essays : including biographies and miscellaneous pieces in prose and poetry / Ann Plato ; with an introduction by Kenny J. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plato, Ann.

Contributor:

Williams, Kenny J. (Kenny Jackson), 1927-2003, writer of introduction.

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

Series:

Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

liii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 122 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

In 1841 Ann Plato's Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry appeared. Printed for the author at Hartford, Connecticut, and containing an introduction by the famous abolitionist, Reverend Dr. James W.C. Pennington, the work not only reveals much about an extraordinary black woman but also reminds us again of the city - now overshadowed by other urban centers - that was a cultural center of the new nation.

Contents:

Prose

Biographies

Poetry.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally issued : Hartford : Printed for the author, 1841.

"Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, phyiscal condition of original texts, or other circumstances prohibited this, volumes or portions of volumes were reset."--Publisher's Note.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989

ISBN:

0195052471

0195052676

OCLC:

16682467