A Brighter Coming Day - by Frances Smith Foster (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This anthology . . . not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to . . . 20th-century writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.<br>--<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>FRANCES SMITH FOSTER</b> is a Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, the former director of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies, and the current chair of the English Department. She has received fellowships from institutions including Fulbright, the Harvard Divinity School, the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard, and the International Theological Center. Her research affiliations include the Brandeis Feminist Sexual Ethics Project and the Emory Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. <p/>She has authored or edited fourteen books including <i>Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1740-1892</i>; <i>A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader</i>; and <i>Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House</i>. Collaborative projects include <i>La Familia En Africa Y La Diaspora Africana/The Family in Africa and the African Diaspora</i>, <i>Norton Anthology of African American Literature</i>, <i>The Oxford Guide to African American Literature</i>, and Norton Critical Edition of <i>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</i>.
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