(LITERATURE AND POETRY) COLEMAN LUCRETIA H NEWMAN Poor Ben a

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VERY SCARCE (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) COLEMAN, LUCRETIA H. NEWMAN. Poor Ben: a Story of Real Life. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 220 pages. 8vo, original brick-red cloth, decoratively stamped in black; extremities rubbed with some loss of cloth to the spine ends and tips; early ownership of "Jas. Leslie" on front free end-paper and a long note by the latter on racial equality on the rear end-paper. Nashville: A. M. E. Sunday School Union, 1890

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first edition. Little is known of Lucretia H. Newman Coleman. She was born sometime around the mid-nineteenth century in Dresden, Ontario. The family, Lucretia and three siblings, moved to Cincinnati where both parents died within a year of each other. Lucretia attended Lawrence University in Appleton, and afterwards took various jobs until becoming assistant secretary and bookkeeper for the A. M. E. in 1883. In the same year she published a long poem titled "Lucile of Montana" which was serialized in "Our Women and Children" [see Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press and its Editors, 1891]. The present work, "Poor Ben" is the biography of Benjamin William Arnett, (1838-1906) bishop of the A.M. E. Church. Lucretia H. Newman Coleman is noted in Monroe A Major's "Noted Negro Women [Chicago, 1893].