Title | : | Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted. Illustrated |
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Author | : | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Release | : | 2023-01-05 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature |
Size | : | 1291177 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. At 67, she published her widely praised novel Lola Leroy (1892), placing her among the first Black women to publish a novel. |