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A brighter coming day (1990)

A brighter coming day (1990)

Literary Fiction

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Year: 1990
Authors: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"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 Day Coming, 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, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.