A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Foster, Frances Smith

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781558610200)

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A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Foster, Frances Smith

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

$22.95
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Foster, Frances Smith

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism.

Author: Frances Smith Foster
ISBN-10: 1558610200
ISBN-13: 9781558610200
Publisher: Feminist Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
By Frances Smith Foster
By Frances Smith Foster
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FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is a Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, the former director of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies, and the current chair of the English Department. She has received fellowships from institutions including Fulbright, the Harvard Divinity School, the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard, and the International Theological Center. Her research affiliations include the Brandeis Feminist Sexual Ethics Project and the Emory Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion.

She has authored or edited fourteen books including Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1740-1892; A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader; and Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Collaborative projects include La Familia En Africa Y La Diaspora Africana/The Family in Africa and the African Diaspora, Norton Anthology of African American Literature, The Oxford Guide to African American Literature, and Norton Critical Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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