Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Frances E.W. Harper

• Aug-1990
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The daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter, Iola Leroy led a life of comfort and privilege, never guessing at her mixed-race ancestry -- until her father died and a treacherous relative sold her into slavery. This stirring tale of life during th...

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet and abolitionist. She joined the American Anti-Slavery Society as a traveling lecturer. This story of temperance is an example of the author's commitment to the causes of suffrage and prohibition....

• Feb-2010
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"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was educated as a teacher. She became a professional lecturer, activist, suffragette, poet, essayist, novelist, and the author of the first published short story written by an African-American woman. Her work...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, is the story of Iola Leroy, beautiful young daughter of a wealthy white Mississippi planter and his mixed-race wife, a former slave he has freed and married. Iola is sent north to be educated and, after the death of h...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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One of the first novels published by an African American woman, “Iola Leroy” is the progressive 1892 novel by famed American abolitionist, suffragist, teacher, and writer, Frances Harper. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland in 1825, Frances Harper c...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it...

• Aug-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted is a 1893 novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Set to the backdrop of the Civil War, the story revolves around Iola Leroy, daughter of a wealthy slaveholder who emancipated and married a young slave called Marie after ...

• / General Fiction
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A rediscovered novel by the author of the first published short story to be written by an African-American author. Whilst the text is in parts incomplete, this remains an important work by the renowned lecturer, activist and writer whose career spann...

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland, was an African American abolitionist and poet. Her first volume of verse, Forest Leaves, was published in 1845, the book was extremely popular and over the next few...