(LITERATURE AND POETRY) HARPER FRANCES E W Iola Leroy or Sha

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HARPER, FRANCES E. W. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. Portrait frontispiece. 282 pages. 8vo, original teal blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. A superior copy. Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1893

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second edition, scarce. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), writer, poet, journalist and activist, wrote her first work, a collection of poetry in 1845. Published in a very small number, it has unfortunately been lost. Her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects was published in 1854 and went through 20 more printings before the end of the 19th century. She wrote nine other books, mostly poetry and finished her novel, Iola Leroy at the age of 67. Margolies and Bakish, page 254.