A Brighter Coming Day: Rediscovering Frances E. W. Harper

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Time: February 25, 2011 from 7pm to 8pm
Location: Ruth Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall, Drexel University
Street: 33rd and Market Streets
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA
Website or Map: http://www.moonstoneartscente…
Phone: 215-735-9600
Event Type: lecture
Organized By: Larry Robin
Latest Activity: Jan 28, 2011

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A lecture by Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Emory University. Frances Smith Foster compiled and edited A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader, the only collection of Harper’s work available. Her research discovered three novels published as serials in the Christian Recorder, the journal of the AME church. Foster then published Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, and Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.