num_pages: 352
description: Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography expresses her indignation, abolitionist sentiments, fiery temper, and sheer joy of life as she reveals the private selves of the white women whose heads she "combed." As an insider on the margins, her identity provides a unique vantage point for her story and that of the elites of nineteenth-century Cincinnati society.
language: English
title: A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
titlecomplete: A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Research
ratings_count: 44
publisher: Oxford University Press