The New Woman and Other Poems
Chicago, IL: C.M. Barnes Co., (1896). First Edition. 8vo. 295, (1) pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine; black decorative stamping on front cover; floral endpapers. Spotting to covers; ffep has separated along hinge; previous owner bookplate; minor wear to extremities; else a very good copy of a scarce 19th-century book of African American poetry. Item #23166
The poetry provides insight into Black intellectual life and literary culture at the end of the 19th century, especially questions of race, morality, education, and women’s changing roles in society.
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