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Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
Foster, Frances Smith
Foster, Frances S.

Hardcover

Series: The ^Aschomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Fiction AnthologiesBlack American StudiesLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0195052404
ISBN13: 9780195052404
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 14 1988
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.73
Height: 1.08 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.83
Language: English
This was probably the best-selling novel by an Afro-American writer prior to the 20th century. Published in 1892, it went through five impressions in one year. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputuation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when this, her only novel, was published. It enjoyed a wide readership among men and women, black and white, in the US, Canada, and Britain.

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