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Biography - Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team, 2007-01-01 Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911, 1898-12-31 Poems on miscellaneous subjects by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911, 1857-12-31 Idylls of the Bible by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911, 1901-12-31 "One great bundle of humanity": Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) by Margaret Hope Bacon, 1989 Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 Harper, 2009-10-26 MINNIES SACRIFICECL (Black Women Writer Series) by Frances E. W. Harper, Frances Smith Foster, 1994-06-01 Iola (Black Classics) by Frances E. W. Harper, 1996-09 Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911 (African American Life) by Melba Joyce Boyd, 1994-06

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1. PAL: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
   Guide. An Ongoing Online Project © Paul P. Reuben. Chapter 5 LateNineteenth Century Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911). Category Arts Literature Authors H Harper, Frances E. W.  
   http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/harper.html
   
   Extractions: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Primary Works Selected Bibliography MLA Style Citation of this Web Page Chap 5: Index ... Top Primary Works: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects , 1854; "The Two Offers," (short story), 1859; Sketches of Southern Life , (poems), 1872; Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted , (novel), 1892; The Martyr of Alabama and Other Poems Complete Poems of FEWH . NY: Oxford UP, 1988. PS1799 .H7 A17 Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted . NY: Oxford UP, 1988. PS1799 .H7 I6 Top Selected Bibliography Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century Bande, Usha "Iola Leroy - A Centennial Reappraisal" Panjab University Research Bulletin (Arts) Birnbaum, Michele A. "Dark Intimacies: The Racial Politics of Womanhood in the 1890's" Diss. Ann Arbor, MI 1992. - - -. "Racial Hysteria: Female Pathology and Race Politics in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and W.D. Howells's

2. Poet Index For Representative Poetry On-line
   Biography and three poems.  
   http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/harper.html

3. Voices From The Gaps: Frances Harper
   Voices From the Gaps is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. (18251911). PROJECT INFO  
   http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/francesharper.html

4. Valencia West LRC - Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
   Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (18251911) The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors.  
   http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/harper.html
   
   Extractions: The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. These sources should be used as a starting pointDO NOT base all of your research on material obtained from reference books. Use these sources to become better acquainted with your author; this will allow you to utilize more effectively the sources listed under COMPREHENSIVE LITERARY RESEARCH. These sources are located at the West Campus LRC; they may also be located at other local libraries. Consult the following reference sources to get an overview of your author's life. Consult the following reference sources to obtain critical analyses of your author and his/her work. The first sources listed will provide a more general critical analyses of your author, while the second set of sources will provide critical analyses of a more specific nature.

5. Tanya Bickley Enterprises: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Performance Page Speaker
   character, and fiery in spirit, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911), poet, novelist, essayist, journalist,  
   http://www.bickley.com/harper.html
   
   Extractions: Chaste in language, moral in character, and fiery in spirit, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer, was truly a 19th century Rennaisance woman of letters. Born on September 24, 1825, to a free black woman and unknown father, Frances poignantly wrote 34 years later, "Oh, is it not a privilege, if you are sisterless and lonely, to be a sister to the human race, and to place your heart where it may throb close to downtrodden humanity." Filled with courage, compassion, danger, difficulty and intelligence, her life and work shine light on that period of American history after the Civil War which so cruelly combined progress and goodness, racist backsliding and fear. In an era where it was deemed unseemly, if not shocking, for an unmarried, young woman, black or white, to address mixed audiences of men and women, the Maine Antislavery Society helped launch a lifelong career, when, in 1854, they hired Frances Ellen Watkins, at age 29, to speak on their behalf. A radical antebellum abolitionist, Miss Watkins preached and practiced the politics of Free Produce, urging economic boycotts of slave-produced goods. Denied appointment as an agent because of obdurate sexism, Frances Watkins, nevertheless, collected donations for the Underground Railroad and counted among her friends Frederick Douglass, William Still, John Brown, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman. After the abolition of slavery, she was especially concerned with helping women understand they could and should use their time and talents to achieve "high and lofty goals."

6. Harper, Fances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
   Harper, Fances Ellen Watkins (18251911). Harper, Fances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911), African American writer and through F.E.W. Harper Leagues, Frances E. Harper Woman's Christian  
   http://www.africanaonline.com/harper_the_author.htm
   
   Extractions: Harper, Fances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911) Harper was born into a free black family in Baltimore, Maryland. She was orphaned at the age of two, and then raised by her uncle, the Rev. William Watkins, director of Baltimore's prestigious Academy for Negro Youth. Harper attended the school, where she studied Greek, Latin, and the Bible. As a result, she was better educated than most other American women of her day, black or white. Harper began writing poetry as a teenager, publishing the poetry collection Forest Leaves before she was 20. Her second career, as an activist, began almost a decade later. During her lifetime, Harper was commemorated through F.E.W. Harper Leagues, Frances E. Harper Woman's Christian Temperance Unions, and chapters of other organizations that bore her name. Harper was also recognized by the Daughters of America and Patriots of the American Revolution.

7. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
   Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911). to make up and write down A Brief Writer'sGuide for Young Writers by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to discuss in  
   http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/harperf.html
   
   Extractions: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Contributing Editor: Elizabeth Ammons Two primary issues in teaching Harper are: (1) the high-culture aesthetic in which students have been trained makes it hard for them to appreciate Harper and find ways to talk about her; (2) most students' ignorance of nineteenth-century African-American history deprives them of a strong and meaningful historical context in which to locate Harper's work. To address the first issue, I ask students to think about the questions and methods of analysis that they may bring to the study of literature in the classroom. What do we look for in "good" literature? Their answers are many but usually involve the following: It should be "interesting" and deal with "important" ideas, themes, topics. It should be intellectually challenging. The style should be sophisticatedby which they mean economical, restrained, and learned without being pretentious. It should need analysis i.e., have many hidden points and many "levels" of meaning that readers (students) do not see until they get to class. Then we talk about these criteria: "Interesting" and "important" by whose standards? Theirs? All of theirs? Whose, then?

8. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
   Highlights historical and literary issues for discussion of the nineteenth century African American author in a classroom atmosphere. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911). Contributing Editor Elizabeth Ammons down "A Brief Writer's Guide for Young Writers by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" to discuss in class.  
   http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/harperf.html
   
   Extractions: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Contributing Editor: Elizabeth Ammons Two primary issues in teaching Harper are: (1) the high-culture aesthetic in which students have been trained makes it hard for them to appreciate Harper and find ways to talk about her; (2) most students' ignorance of nineteenth-century African-American history deprives them of a strong and meaningful historical context in which to locate Harper's work. To address the first issue, I ask students to think about the questions and methods of analysis that they may bring to the study of literature in the classroom. What do we look for in "good" literature? Their answers are many but usually involve the following: It should be "interesting" and deal with "important" ideas, themes, topics. It should be intellectually challenging. The style should be sophisticatedby which they mean economical, restrained, and learned without being pretentious. It should need analysis i.e., have many hidden points and many "levels" of meaning that readers (students) do not see until they get to class. Then we talk about these criteria: "Interesting" and "important" by whose standards? Theirs? All of theirs? Whose, then?

9. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Autho
   Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's careerspanned the critical period in American history from abolition to women's  
   http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_ninet
   
   Extractions: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's career spanned the critical period in American history from abolition to women's suffrage, and she cared deeply about both. Harper frequently centered her writing on political issues and, conversely, incorporated her literary work into her speeches on political topics. She is one of the premier artist activists—or activist artists—in American literary history. An only child born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland, Frances Ellen Watkins was orphaned at three and raised by her aunt and uncle, whose school she attended. She worked as a domestic in her teens; moved to Ohio in 1850, where she taught at Union Seminary near Columbus; moved again in the 1850s to York, Pennsylvania, where she became active in abolition work; and traveled throughout New England before the Civil War giving anti-slavery speeches and being hired by the Anti-Slavery Society of Maine as their official speaker. In 1860 she married a widowed farmer, Fenton Harper, in Ohio and had one daughter. When her husband died in 1864, she returned east and resumed her life of full-time speaking and writing. Frances Harper was extolled as a brilliant and moving public lecturer who used no notes and often talked for two hours at a time. Though proud of the effect she had on audiences—Harper declared in the early 1870s, "both white and colored come out to hear me, and I have very fine meetings"—Harper experienced bigotry. She knew that many of her white listeners found it virtually impossible to believe that a black woman could be articulate and rational. She wrote to a friend in 1871, "I don't know but that you would laugh if you were to hear some of the remarks that my lectures call forth: 'She is a man,' again 'She is not colored, she is painted.'"

10. Voices From The Gaps: Frances Harper
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911). PROJECT INFO. Overview and purposeof the program. Awards. Credits acknowledgments. List of contributors.  
    http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/HARPERfrances.html
    
    Extractions: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper) was born in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, which was a free state at that time. Harper's mother died before she was three years old, leaving her an orphan. Harper was raised by her uncle, William Watkins, a teacher at the Academy for Negro Youth and a radical political figure in civil rights. Watkins was a major influence on Harper's political, religious, and social views. Harper attended the Academy for Negro Youth and the rigorous education she received, along with the political activism of her uncle, affected and influenced her poetry. After she left school in 1839, Harper's first poems were published in abolitionist periodicals, such as "Frederick Douglass' Paper." In 1845, Harper's first book of poems

11. PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Author - Main Index -
    Hardy, Thomas, 18401928; Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911;Harris, Robert A., 1950-; Hart, Michael S. Harte, Bret; Hawthorne  
    http://www.informika.ru/text/books/gutenb/gutind/TEMP/ha.html

12. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
    Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. (18251911), lecturer, author, and reformer  
    http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Harper_Frances_Ellen_Watkins.html
    
    Extractions: (1825-1911), lecturer, author, and reformer Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 24, 1825, Frances Watkins was the daughter of free black parents. She grew up in the home of an uncle whose school for black children she attended. At age 13 she went to work as a domestic in a Baltimore household but continued her education on her own. About 1845 she published a collection of verses and prose writings under the title Forest Leaves. During 1850-52 she taught sewing at Union Seminary, a work-study school operated by the African Methodist Episcopal Church near Columbus, Ohio. Later she taught in Little York, Pennsylvania. The rising heat of the abolitionist controversy and the consequent increasing stringency of slave laws in Southern and border states at length drew her into the public arena. In August 1854 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, she delivered a public address on "Education and the Elevation of the Colored Race." Her success there led to a two-year lecture tour in Maine for the state Anti-Slavery Society, and from 1856 to 1860 she spoke throughout the East and Midwest. In addition to her antislavery lecturing she read frequently from her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854), which was quite successful and was several times enlarged and reissued. It addressed the subjects of motherhood, separation, and death and contained the antislavery poem "Bury Me in a Free Land." Generally written in conventional rhymed quatrains, her poetry was noted for its simple rhythm and biblical imagery. Its narrative voice reflected the storytelling style of the oral tradition. She also contributed to various periodicals; her story "The Two Offers" in the

13. Bomis: The Arts/Literature/Authors/H/Harper, Frances E. W. Ring
    Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911) www.hmco.com. 6. Frances Ellen WatkinsHarper (1825-1911). Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) www.csustan.edu.  
    http://www.bomis.com/rings/Mh-harper_frances_e_w-arts/

14. Harper, Frances E.W. Iola Leroy
    or, Shadows uplifted a machinereadable transcription. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911. ca. 443 kilobytes  
    http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97248/@Generic__BookView

15. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
    Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. (18251911), lecturer, author, and reformerBorn in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 24, 1825, Frances  
    http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Harper_Frances_Ellen_Watkins.html
    
    Extractions: (1825-1911), lecturer, author, and reformer Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 24, 1825, Frances Watkins was the daughter of free black parents. She grew up in the home of an uncle whose school for black children she attended. At age 13 she went to work as a domestic in a Baltimore household but continued her education on her own. About 1845 she published a collection of verses and prose writings under the title Forest Leaves. During 1850-52 she taught sewing at Union Seminary, a work-study school operated by the African Methodist Episcopal Church near Columbus, Ohio. Later she taught in Little York, Pennsylvania. The rising heat of the abolitionist controversy and the consequent increasing stringency of slave laws in Southern and border states at length drew her into the public arena. In August 1854 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, she delivered a public address on "Education and the Elevation of the Colored Race." Her success there led to a two-year lecture tour in Maine for the state Anti-Slavery Society, and from 1856 to 1860 she spoke throughout the East and Midwest. In addition to her antislavery lecturing she read frequently from her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854), which was quite successful and was several times enlarged and reissued. It addressed the subjects of motherhood, separation, and death and contained the antislavery poem "Bury Me in a Free Land." Generally written in conventional rhymed quatrains, her poetry was noted for its simple rhythm and biblical imagery. Its narrative voice reflected the storytelling style of the oral tradition. She also contributed to various periodicals; her story "The Two Offers" in the

16. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    18251911 Antislavery Orator-Poet-Novelist. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wasborn free in the slave city of Baltimore, Maryland on September 24,1825.  
    http://www.dorothyprince.com/francesharper.asp
    
    Extractions: Antislavery Orator-Poet-Novelist "Could we trace the record of every human heart, the aspirations of every immortal soul, perhaps we would find no man so imbruted and degraded that we could not trace the word liberty either written in living characters upon the soul or hidden away in some nook or corner of the heart." Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free in the slave city of Baltimore, Maryland on September 24,1825. She never experienced the fetters of slavery and yet she would devote her entire life to the abolitionist movement, and what she called "a brighter coming day". Writing more than a dozen books, essays, innumerable poems and stories, Harper would become the nineteenth century's most prolific novelist and its leading African American poet. Determined to make a difference in the world in which she lived, she became one of the most recognized and noted antislavery lecturers, a founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association, a member of the national board of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and executive officer of the Universal Peace Union, and one of the founding members of the National Association of Colored Women. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a new addition to the "African-American Women of Distinction performance programs. Harper has been selected to be included in Chautauqua 2003, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

17. Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy: Selected Bibliography
    1991. Ammons, Elizabeth. Legacy Profile Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911). Legacy A Journal of American Women Writers 2.2, (Fall 1985) 61-6.  
    http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl413/harbib.htm
    
    Extractions: Selected Bibliography on Frances E. W. Harper and Iola Leroy Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century Ammons, Elizabeth. "Legacy Profile: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2.2, (Fall 1985): 61-6. Bacon, Margaret Hope. "'One Great Bundle of Humanity': Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113.1 (1989 Jan.):21-49. Berlant, Lauren. "The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill." American Literature 65.3 (Sept. 1993): 549-74. Birnbaum, Michele Amy. Dark Intimacies: The Racial Politics of Womanhood in the 1890s. 1992 .Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) vol. 53 no. 6, 1992 Dec. DAI No: DA9230333. Degree Granting Institution: U of Washington. 1911A Carby, Hazel V. (introd.) Iola Leroy. Boston: Beacon, 1987. Carby, Hazel V.

18. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. 18251911. back button.  
    http://www.uuwhs.org/Mar2000Exhibit/5-Exhibit/Exhibit/Born1820-1825/gallery/page

19. UUWHS 2002 Calendar: Liberating Spirits
    Frances Wayland Wood (19031975) Alice M. Harrison (1906-1989) Mary Louise ButlerThompson (1911-2000) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Frances Dana  
    http://www.uuwhs.org/calendar2002.html

20. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    Author, Orator Activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (18251911)Frances Ellen Watkins had the good fortune to be born in the  
    http://writetools.com/women/stories/harper_frances.html
    
    Extractions: Frances Ellen Watkins had the good fortune to be born in the free state of Maryland, so she did not enter life as a slave. But her mother died when Frances was only three years old, and the orphaned child went to live with her uncle, William Watkins, who taught at the Academy for Negro Youth and was a politically active civil rights radical. Raised in an atmosphere of activism and rigorous academic expectations, Frances grew up to become first a teacher, and then a widely known public speaker, author, and women's and civil rights champion. Her first brush with fame was through her poetry published in abolitionist journals. She garnered some local notoriety in 1850 when she accepted a teaching position at the Union Seminary (now Wilberforce University Underground Railroad Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted . That book, published in 1892, was the first published novel by a black woman in the United States, and Frances is also credited with introducing the tradition of African American protest poetry. Frances was born on September 24, 1825 and died in 1911.

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