Invented lives :  narratives of black women, 1860-1960 / 
[edited and with an introduction by] Mary Helen Washington. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Garden City, N.Y. :  Anchor Press,  1987. 
 - xxxi, 447 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385183933 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American--Afro-American authors.<br/>American fiction--Women authors.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Women--Fiction.--United States<br/>Afro-American women--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS647.A35  / I58 1987 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.008/09287