A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Author/Contributor(s):	Foster, Frances Smith
Publisher:	Feminist Press
Date:	01/01/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.