death_place children notableworks birth_date spouse genre article_title name
williamsport , pennsylvania annie c. collins -lrb- mrs. john l. caution -rrb- '' '' curse of caste , or the slave bride c. 1842 stephen c. collins -lrb- a/k/a simon c. collins -rrb- fiction , essay julia c. collins
 julia c. collins
julia c. collins

julia c. collins -lrb- c. 1842 - november 25 , 1865 -rrb- , was an african-american schoolteacher in williamsport , pennsylvania , who in 1864 and 1865 contributed essays and other writings to the `` christian recorder '' , a publication of the african methodist episcopal church .
starting in january 1865 , her novel , `` the curse of caste , or the slave bride , '' was serialized in the pages of the `` christian recorder . ''
the novel remains unfinished due to the untimely death of its author from consumption .
in 2006 , william l. andrews of university of north carolina at chapel hill and mitch kachun of western michigan university collected collins ' writings and her unfinished novel and published them , with commentary and notes through oxford university press .
