Collected Black women's poetry / edited by Joan R. Sherman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherman, Joan R., editor.

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):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry--19th century.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Contents:

v. 1. Loew's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl (1867); Poems (1867) / Mary E. Tucker (Lambert); Infelicia (Originally published 1868) / Adah Isaacs Menken

v. 2. Magnolia Leaves. Poems (1897) / Mary Weston Fordham; Ethiope Lays (1900) / by Priscilla Jane Thompson; Gleanings of Quiet Hours (1907) / Priscilla Jane Thompson; Songs from the Wayside (1908) / by Clara Ann Thompson

v. 3. Poems (1910) / H. Cordelia Ray; Prejudice Unveiled and Other Poems (1907) / Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

v. 4. Morning Glory (1890) / Josephine D. (Henderson) Heard; Poems (1895) / Eloise Bibb; Virginia Dreams: Lyrics for the Idle Hour. Tales of the Time Told in Rhyme (1910) / Maggie Pogue Johnson; Autobiography and Poems (n.d.) / Mrs. Henry Linden.

Notes:

"Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, physical 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

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0195052536

0195052544

0195052552

0195052560

OCLC:

16277576