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The Tale of Irwyn Tremayne

By: Frances Hern

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Young Irwyn Tremayne is petrified at the thought of following the family tradition of working underground in the Cornish copper mines. He blames himself for the death of his brother and is afraid to share the dark secrets he learns about body snatchers. Irwyn’s widowed and depressed father needs a new start and books a passage for Irwyn and himself to Virgin Gorda to work in the copper mine there. Irwyn considers running away but wants to keep his promise made on his mother’s deathbed to take care of his father. The rough sailing passage across the Atlantic presents no end of adventure and trouble. Will Irwyn find his true courage at sea? http://www.franceshern.ca

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1460290496

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9781460290491

Iola Leroy

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Iola Leroy

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. After she is freed by the Union army, she works to reunify her family and embrace her heritage, committing herself to improving the conditions for Blacks in America. Through her fascinating characters-including Iola's brother, who fights at the front in a colored regiment-Harper weaves a vibrant and provocative chronicle of the Civil War and its consequences through African American eyes in this critical contribution to the nation's literature.

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Penguin

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014310604X

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9780143106043

Story-Telling Ballads

By: Frances Jenkins Olcott

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Story-Telling Ballads

By: Frances Jenkins Olcott

Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems -- romances, hero-tales, faery legends, and adventures of Knights and lovely Damsels. They sing of proud and wicket folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of Laidley Worms, Witches, Mermaids, and more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434455823

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9781434455826

Written by Herself

Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892

By: Frances Smith Foster

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Written by Herself

Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892

By: Frances Smith Foster

...substantial contribution to African-American Studies and women's studies." --Mississippi Quarterly "A bravura performance by an accomplished scholar... it strikes a perfect balance between insightful literary analysis and historical investigation." --Eighteenth-Century Studies "... an impressive study of a wide range of writers.... Foster's work is both scholarly and accessible. Her prose is economical and direct, making this book enjoyable as well as instructive." --Belles Lettres "... an impressively wide-ranging discussion of texts and contexts... " --Signs "Foster has written a fine book that provides the reader with a context for understanding the importance of the written word for women who chose to 'set the record straight'." --Journal of American History "... fascinating, meticulously researched... Likely to prove seminal in the field... highly recommended... " --Library Journal " Written by Herself comprises a volume of remarkable female characters whose desires for social change often made them catalysts for spiritual awakening in their own times." --MultiCultural Review "... an outstanding piece of scholarship... Foster's book offers deeply intelligent, provocative, totally accessible analysis of a tradition and of writers still not sufficiently read and taught." --American Literature "Well written and thoroughly researched. Highly recommended... " --Choice The first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the 20th century. From the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in 1686, to the literary tradition that included Jarena Lee and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, this literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to black women.

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Indiana University Press

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025320786X

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9780253207869

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

By: Frances Timbers

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

By: Frances Timbers

The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

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Routledge

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1317036514

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9781317036517

Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted

With an Introductory Chapter by George F. Bragg

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,George F. Bragg

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Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted

With an Introductory Chapter by George F. Bragg

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,George F. Bragg

“Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted” is a 1893 novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Set to the backdrop of the Civil War, the story revolves around Iola Leroy, daughter of a wealthy slaveholder who emancipated and married a young slave called Marie after she nursed him through an illness. The children's African ancestry was hidden from them until the death of their father, after which point Marie and her children were once again legally considered slaves. One of the first books to be written by an African American women, “Iola Leroy” is a must read for those with an interest in American history. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) was a suffragist, abolitionist, poet, public speaker, educator, and writer. She was among the first African American women to be published in the United States and belonged to a number of progressive organizations, including the Colored Section of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Association of Colored Women. Other notable works by this author include: “Forest Leaves” (1845), “Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects” (1854), and “The Two Offers” (1859). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter by George F. Bragg.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528791045

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9781528791045

A Brighter Coming Day

A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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A Brighter Coming Day

A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.

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Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558610200

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9781558610200

Spring-Time with the Poets

Poetry selected and arranged

By: Frances Martin

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Spring-Time with the Poets

Poetry selected and arranged

By: Frances Martin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752555696

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9783752555691

Iola Leroy

By: Frances E.W Harper

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Iola Leroy

By: Frances E.W Harper

Reproduction of the original: Iola Leroy by Frances E.W Harper

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3752360690

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The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level ebook edition

By: Rebecca Warren,William Shakespeare,Frances Gray

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The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level ebook edition

By: Rebecca Warren,William Shakespeare,Frances Gray

This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams.

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Pearson UK

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1292135425

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Iola Leroy

By: Frances Harper

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Iola Leroy

By: Frances Harper

Iola Leroy was originally published in 1892, during a time of black disenfranchisement, lynching, and Jim Crow laws. It is the story of a "refined mulatto" raised to believe she's white until she and her mother are sold into slavery. Iola becomes an outspoken advocate for her people and a critic of race-mixing. Her story offers an important portrait of black life during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Beacon Press

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0807065196

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9780807065198

The Novels of Frances Harper

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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The Novels of Frances Harper

By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Novels of Frances Harper (2021) collects four works of fiction by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a pioneering figure in African American literature. Minnie’s Sacrifice (1869), originally serialized in the Christian Recorder, addresses such themes as miscegenation, passing, and the institutionalized rape of enslaved women using the story of Moses as inspiration. Sowing and Reaping (1876) is a novel concerned with the cause of temperance in a time when Black families were frequently torn apart by alcoholism. Trial and Triumph (1888-1889) is a politically conscious novel concerned with an African American community doing its best to overcome hardship with love and solidarity. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a story of liberation set during the American Civil War that deals with such themes as abolition, miscegenation, and passing. Minnie’s Sacrifice begins on a plantation in the American South. A slave named Miriam mourns the untimely death of her only daughter, Agnes, who succumbed while giving birth to a baby boy, leaving her son in her mother’s care. Visiting Miriam’s cabin later that day, Camilla, the master’s daughter, discovers a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy. Bringing this to the attention of her father, Camilla proposes that the boy be sent away from the plantation to be brought up as white. Trial and Triumph is the story of a young orphan girl. With few opportunities for education, and despite her affinity for reading, Annette faces prejudice and indifference from her community, who remain either cautiously protective of their children or too involved with their own problems to pay heed to another struggling youth. Sowing and Reaping is a tale of friendship and tragedy exploring the concerns of the temperance movement. Paul—whose father died young from alcoholism—always places morality ahead of opportunity, while John, a pragmatist at heart, decides to open a saloon. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born woman who was forced into slavery due to her mixed racial heritage. Her father Eugene, a wealthy slaveowner, set Iola’s mother free in order to marry her and start a family. When he died from a sudden illness, Eugene left his family in grave danger, and Marie and her children were soon torn from freedom by Eugene’s spiteful relatives. These novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a groundbreaking nineteenth century writer, inspired such figures as Zora Neale Hurston and Ida B. Wells. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Novels of Frances Harper is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Graphic Arts Books

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1513217569

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9781513217567

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

By: Frances E. W. Harper

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Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

By: Frances E. W. Harper

This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.

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Courier Corporation

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0486141187

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9780486141183

Book's by Frances Hern

The Tale of Irwyn Tremayne

The Tale of Irwyn Tremayne

Iola Leroy

Iola Leroy

Story-Telling Ballads

Story-Telling Ballads

Written by Herself

Written by Herself

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted

Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted

A Brighter Coming Day

A Brighter Coming Day

Spring-Time with the Poets

Spring-Time with the Poets

Iola Leroy

Iola Leroy

The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level ebook edition

The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level ebook edition

Iola Leroy

Iola Leroy

The Novels of Frances Harper

The Novels of Frances Harper

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

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