Selected works of Edythe Mae Gordon
By: Edythe Mae Gordon ; introduction by Lorraine Elena Roses.
Series: African American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Roses, Lorraine Elena, 1943-; African American women -- Literary collections.; African Americans -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1890-?) appeared briefly as a poet and short story writer in the twenties and thirties and was particularly active, through her connection to the Saturday Evening Quill Club, in black intellectual and cultural life in the Boston of the late twenties.

This volume includes not only three stories and thirteen poems, the bulk of which were originally published in the Saturday Evening Quill, but also the first publication of Gordon's Boston University M.A. thesis, "The Status of the Negro Woman in the United States from 1619-1865."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90).