Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911)
Auteur van Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Over de Auteur
Popular with both African American and white audiences, Frances Ellen Harper's poetry, novels, short stories, and lectures reflected her antislavery and antiracist attitudes, going beyond these themes to address broader social issues, such as women's suffrage and temperance. Born to a free family toon meer in Baltimore, Harper was encouraged to read and write by her employer, the wife of a bookseller. She moved to the free state of Ohio in 1850, where she taught, spoke for the Anti-Slavery Society of Maine, and published her popular Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). Her novel, Iola Leroy (1892), depicts a slave family's effort to reunite after emancipation. It was the first work to chronicle the Reconstruction South from an African American point of view. Although criticized by some as overly sentimental and unrealistic, the novel must be seen in context as an appeal for readers' sympathy and understanding. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels (1994) 39 exemplaren
Atlanta Offering: Poems 1 exemplaar
“Bury Me in a Free Land 1 exemplaar
The Two Offers 1 exemplaar
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Geboortedatum
- 1825-09-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1911-02-22
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart disease
- Woonplaatsen
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ohio, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Opleiding
- Watkins Academy for Negro Youth, Baltimore
- Beroepen
- teacher
tailor
poet
writer
public speaker - Organisaties
- National Association of Colored Women
Unitarian Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Zora Canon (1)
The Zora Canon (1)
Prijzen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 15
- Ook door
- 30
- Leden
- 464
- Populariteit
- #53,001
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 75
- Talen
- 1
This piece of writing is great--five stars--as a social study of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. It covers all kinds of territory, from questions of passing and privilege, education, colorism, political advocacy, political corruption, prejudice and racially-motivated extrajudicial violence, and very presciently describes an understanding of race as socially constructed and socialized. However, as a novel it's kind of a mess, and I cannot say the plot really drove me to keep reading. I wish its execution as fiction were as strong as the social and political questions it explores. Considered as one of the first major literary works by a nineteenth-century Black woman writer, it's still very well worth reading in spite of my quibbles!… (meer)