Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted

This was probably the best-selling novel by an Afro-American writer prior to the twentieth century. Published in 1892, it went through five impressions in one year. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputuation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when this, her only novel, was published. It enjoyed a wide readership among men and women, black and white, in the US, Canada, and Britain.

Summary

An original work of fiction first published in 1893, this is one volume in a series of thirty, The Schomberg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.

Additional text

Probably the best-selling novel by an African-American before the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Frances E. W. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Assisted by: Frances S. Foster (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.1988
• EAN: 9780195052404
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505240-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Anthologies (non-poetry), Black & Asian Studies, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Relating to African American / Black American people, Classic fiction: general and literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Anthologies