Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Frances E W Harper author Frances S Foster editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:28th Jul '88

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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.

Probably the best-selling novel by an African-American before the 20th century. * The New York Times *

ISBN: 9780195052404

Dimensions: 124mm x 173mm x 28mm

Weight: 318g

336 pages