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The firefly letters

The firefly letters

Poetry Children Young Adult

Margarita Engle

Authors: Margarita Engle
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.