Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Iola Leroy
Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted | Frances E.W. Harper
2 posts | 9 read | 7 to read
First published in 1892, Iola Leroy was probably the best-selling novel by an African-American writer prior to the twentieth century. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when Iola Leroy—her only novel—appeared, as evident by the sizable audience she enjoyed of men and women, black and white, in the U.S., Canada, and England. Her writings reveal her in-depth knowledge of African-American literature as well as of other literatures, and through this novel we can see the preferences and aesthetic assumptions of her nineteenth-century audience.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Clare-Dragonfly
Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted | Frances E.W. Harper
Pickpick

This book should be better known! It‘s one of the first novels written by an African American woman, and it‘s a delight. Iola, the main character, is raised and educated as a white woman, but discovers that she has African blood when her white father dies and his cousin and heir has her mother‘s manumission declared illegal. Many of the main characters could pass for white but heroically choose not to. There are also strong Christian themes and…

Clare-Dragonfly … a brief but sweet romance to round it out. 1y
14 likes1 comment
blurb
breadnroses
Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
post image

finished book 2 for my african american literature class!

1 stack add