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Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960 / [edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1987.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxi, 447 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0385183933 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.008/09287 19
LOC classification:
  • PS647.A35 I58 1987
Incomplete contents:
The perils of a slave woman's life / Harriet Jacobs -- Iola / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Sappho ; Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The colored girl / Fannie Barrier Williams -- On being young, a woman, and colored / Marita O. Bonner -- Helga Crane / Nella Larsen -- His over-the-creek-girl ; Jamie Crawford / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mamie / Ann Petry -- Cleo ; My mother, Rachel West / Dorothy West -- The courtship and motherhood of Maud Martha ; The rise of Maud Martha ; Afterword to âContending forces' / Gwendolyn Brooks.

Includes excerpts from writings by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Fannie Barrier Williams, Marita O. Bonner, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Gwendolyn Brooks.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The perils of a slave woman's life / Harriet Jacobs -- Iola / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Sappho ; Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding: a Christmas story / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The colored girl / Fannie Barrier Williams -- On being young, a woman, and colored / Marita O. Bonner -- Helga Crane / Nella Larsen -- His over-the-creek-girl ; Jamie Crawford / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mamie / Ann Petry -- Cleo ; My mother, Rachel West / Dorothy West -- The courtship and motherhood of Maud Martha ; The rise of Maud Martha ; Afterword to âContending forces' / Gwendolyn Brooks.

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