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
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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