Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stoweįollow us on instagram Kim on twitter up for our newsletter: Įmail us: Contact - Lost Ladies of Lit Podcastįollow us on instagram Kim on twitter up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit. Koritha MitchellĬarla Peterson (University of Maryland English Department) Koritha Mitchellįrom Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African-American Culture by Dr. Koritha Mitchell, who edited and wrote the introduction to the 2018 Broadview Press edition. Joining us in conversation is award-winning author, professor, and literary historian Dr. Her novel Iola Leroy is an eye-opening look at what it was like for Black Americans in the midst of, and in the decades following, the Civil War.
Harper’s Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted, published in 1892, is arguably the first novel written by an African-American woman. Abolitionist, suffragist, and writer Frances Harper was widely acclaimed in her day and one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Frances Harper and Iola Leroy Background Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, born in 1825, enjoyed a prolific career in the public spotlight until her death in 1911.
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