(LITERATURE AND POETRY) JOHNSON GEORGIA DOUGLAS Bronze A Boo

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A HARLEM RENAISSANCE CLASSIC (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) JOHNSON, GEORGIA DOUGLAS. Bronze: A Book of Verse. Small, squarish 8vo, original cloth-backed brown pictorial boards with matching printed label up the spine. A fine copy, dust jacket with several large chips from the front panel and spine. Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1922

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Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966), one of the most important female poets of the 20th century was born in Atlanta Georgia. She attended Atlanta University where she met and married Henry Lincoln Johnson in 1896. Her first poem was published in 1916. After the couple moved to Washington D.C., Johnson began to write poetry in earnest. Unable to pursue a professional career because her husband insisted that she remain a housewife, Johnson instead conducted one of the most notable literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance in her home. There, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset and others came to talk and trade ideas. Between 1918 and 1930 Douglas published some 200 poems in newspapers and magazines and produced three volumes of poetry: Heart of a Woman, Bronze (1922), and Autumn Love Cycle (1928). She is considered by many to be the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance and the first African-American woman poet to gain prominence in the 20th century.