This research guide will connect you to reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, and other information sources on African American poet, novelist, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, and social reformer, Frances Ellen Waktins Harper (1825-1911), who was a household name in the America of the 19th century.
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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by 
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by Most of these are Ebooks. Click on the titles to read them
Forest Leaves by 
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects by 
Moses: A Story of the Nile by 
Poems by 
Light Beyond Darkness by 
Sketches from Southern Life by 
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted by 
Atlanta Offering: Poems by 
Poems by 
Idylls of the Bible by 
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances E. W. Harper ReaderClick on any link below to run a search in the online catalog, for all books and other materials on that subject in, or accessible through, the Gumberg Library.
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Click a link below to see all dissertations or theses on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
A Philadelphia Poetry Moment: Frances E. W. Harper's Poetry, by Tara Lake
A Philadelphia Literary Moment: Frances E. W. Harper's Fiction, by Tara Lake
A Philadelphia Literary Moment: Frances E. W. Harper's Speeches, by Tara Lake
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