A brighter coming day
Subtitle: a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader
By: edited and with an introduction by Frances Smith Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Frances Smith.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York; Distributed by the Talman Co.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-411) and index.