Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Poetry

Further reading

  • Boyd, Melba Joyce, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911. Wayne State University Press, 1995.
  • Carby, Hazel, "Introduction" to Iola Leroy. Beacon Press, 1987.
  • Cutter, Martha J., "The Politics of Hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy", Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing 1850 – 1930, University Press of Mississippi/Jackson, 1999, 141–160.
  • Ernest, John. "Chapter 6: Unsolved Mysteries and Emerging Histories: Frances E. Harper's Iola Leroy." In Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-century African-American Literature, University Press of Mississippi, 1995, 180–207.
  • Field, Corinne T., "Frances E. W. Harper and the Politics of Intellectual Maturity", in Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage (eds), Toward An Intellectual History of Black Women, The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, 2015, 110–126.
  • Gardner, Eric. "Sowing and Reaping: A 'New' Chapter from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Second Novel." Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, vol. 13, no. 1, October 2012. http://commonplace.online/article/sowing-reapinga-new-chapter-frances-ellen-watkins-harpers-second-novel/.
  • Graham, Maryemma, ed., The Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper, 1988.
  • Jones, Martha S.. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020, 90–93, 111–118.
  • McKnight, Utz: Frances E. W Harper : a call to conscience, Cambridge, UK ; Medford, PA : Polity Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-5095-3554-5
  • Parker, Alison M. (2010). Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State, Northern Illinois University Press, 97–138.
  • Parker, Alison M. (2012). Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights, University of Rochester Press, 145–171.
  • Shockley, Ann Allen, Afro-American Women Writers 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989.
  • Smith Foster, Frances, ed., A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader, 1990.
  • Zack, Ian. "Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist" New York Times Feb 7, 2023. online obituary

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