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Personal life. Selected works. Legacy and honors. References. Further reading. External links. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer.
Poet, author, and lecturer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the first African American woman to publish a short story and was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer. Discover more at womenshistory.org.
Her poetry has been collected in Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper (1988, ed. Maryemma Graham), and her prose in A Brighter Coming Day (1990, ed. Frances Smith Foster). She married Fenton Harper in 1860.
An activist, a teacher, a poet — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an extraordinary figure in American history. She was born free in the city of Baltimore in 1825, orphaned at the age of three, and grew up under the tutelage of her uncle Rev. William Watkins. William himself was an outspoken abolitionist and author, was a friend to William Lloyd Garrison and ran the “William Watkins Academy ...
7 de ago. de 2013 · 3.75. 8 ratings1 review. Poems and Trial and Triumph. 212 pages, Paperback. First published August 7, 2013. Book details & editions. About the author. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. 63 books68 followers. Follow. Born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. After her mother died when she was three years old in 1828, Watkins was orphaned.
September 24, 1825—February 22, 1911 (aged 85) Career: Abolitionist, poet. State: MD. Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/frances-ellen-watkins-harper. Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper) was an abolitionist and poet born free in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland. Harper's mother died before she was three years old ...
Collected Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : Watkins, Frances: Amazon.es: Libros
