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Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (The ^Aschomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

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Publication Date: April 14th, 1988
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
9780195052404
Pages:
336

Description

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.