Cover Image

Iola Leroy; or, Shadows uplifted /

Show other versions (7)

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social is...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, AMS Press [1971]
Subjects:
African American women > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
American fiction > 19th century.
Noires américaines > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Roman américain > 19e siècle.
American fiction
African American women
African Americans
1800-1899
Fiction
Fiction.
Romans.
Description
Summary:Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social responsibility.
Physical Description:282 pages portrait 19 cm
ISBN:0404001696
9780404001698