A Brighter Coming Day

A Brighter Coming Day
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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : 1558610200
ISBN-13 : 9781558610200
Rating : 4/5 (200 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Brighter Coming Day by : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Download or read book A Brighter Coming Day written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.


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