TY  - BOOK
AU  - Washington,Mary Helen
TI  - Invented lives: narratives of black women, 1860-1960 
SN  - 0385183933 (pbk.)
AV  - PS647.A35 I58 1987
U1  - 813/.008/09287 19
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Garden City, N.Y.
PB  - Anchor Press
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Afro-American authors
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Afro-American women
N1  - 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
ER  -