Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the College Language Association Book Award
Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.
About the Author
'Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911), a popular lecturer, poet, and author, was a leader in the suffrage and temperance movements and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women.Francis Smith Foster, director of the Women\'s Studies Program at Emory University, and well known scholar of nineteenth century African-American literature, is author of Written by Herself: Literary Production by African-American Women.'