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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Selected Bibliography on Iola Leroy Rediscovery of "New" Chapter from Sowing and Reaping at common-place.org. Teaching guide from the Heath Anthology site Lucy Delany, From the Darkness Cometh the Light (note Harper's use of "Delany" as a character name) Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (HTML text separated by chapters at the Schomburg Library of African American Women Writers site; best edition to use for class purposes)

Works  Forest Leaves (1845; no copy of these poems survives) Moses: A Story of the Nile (poems, 1854, 1869; 20 editions by 1871) At Project Gutenberg: Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted (English) Minnie's Sacrifice (English) Poems (English) Sowing and Reaping (English) Trial and Triumph (English) "Enlightened Motherhood" (speech;1892) (another version at about.com) The Master of Alabama (poems, 1894) Sketches of Southern Life  (HTML;1891 edition at the SSAWW Site) Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (novel, 1892; page images at Michigan Online America project) (New URL) Comments to D. Campbell.