Lost no More: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's* Forest
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's first book of poems had been considered lost to history for well over one hundred years. Johanna Ortner shares the tale of recovering this incredibly valuable text--and shares the text itself--with the readers of Common-place.
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The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States: 9780812250800: Spires, Derrick R.: Books
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Donna Campbell (@Dmcampbellwsu@)
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Slavery and Abolition Archives - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry
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Nor wish to live the past again”: Unsettling Origins in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves - Commonplace
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August 15, 2021: Volume XC, No. 16 by Kirkus Reviews - Issuu
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Donna Campbell (@Dmcampbellwsu@)
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: books, biography, latest update
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Calaméo - Get Lost in the Pages
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
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The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction - Broadview Press
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Lost no More: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's* Forest Leaves - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
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Our Greatest Want: An Examination of the Rhetorical Tendencies Employed by African American Female Abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – Forest Leaves
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Lost no More: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's* Forest Leaves - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life