Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (reprint series with Oxford UP). Gen. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1988-91.
• 30 volumes published in 1988
• 10 volumes published in 1991
Volumes 1-30 (1988):
• Albert, Octavia V. Rogers. "The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves. (1890)." Intro. Frances Smith Foster. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xliii+161 pp.
• Andrews, William L., ed. "Six Women's Slave Narratives." New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xli+328 pp. Includes: The history of Mary Prince, West Indian slave / originally edited by Thomas Pringle -- Memoir of old Elizabeth, a coloured woman -- The story of Mattie J. Jackson / written and arranged by L.S. Thompson -- From the darkness cometh the light or struggles for freedom / by Lucy A. Delaney -- A slave girl's story / Kate Drumgoold -- Memories of childhood's slavery days / Annie L. Burton.
• Barthemlemy, Anthony G., comp. "Collected Black Women's Narratives." New. York: Oxford UP, 1988. Includes: A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1853; originally published in 1850) / Nancy Prince -- Louisa Picquet, the octoroon: A tale of Southern Slave Life (1861) / Rev. H. Mattison, A.M. -- The narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman (1889) -- Reminiscences of my life in camp: With the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902) / Susie King Taylor.
• Brown, Hallie Q. "Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. (1926)." Intro. Randall K. Burkett. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxv+248 pp.
• Cooper, Anna Julia. "A Voice from the South." Intro. Mary Helen Washington. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. liv+304 pp.
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice. "The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Intro. Gloria T. Hull. 3 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. Includes: v. 1. Violets and other tales -- The goodness of St. Rocque and other stories. v. 2. Novelette. A modern Undine; Poetry: Rainy day -- A common plaint -- A song of love -- Summit and vale -- A little bird sings -- The lovers -- The gift -- Sorrow's crown -- Still from the depths -- Violets -- To the Negro farmers of the United States -- The lights at Carney's Point -- I sit and sew -- You! Inez! -- To Madame Curie -- Communion -- Music -- Of old St. Augustine -- Snow in October -- April is on the way -- Forest fire -- Cano--I sing -- The proletariat speaks -- Little roads -- Harlem John Henry view the airmada; Newspaper Columns: From a woman's point of view -- Une femme dit -- As in a looking glass -- An editorial : the ultimate insult; Essays: Politics in Delaware -- Woman's most serious problem -- The problem of personal service -- Facing life squarely -- Big quarterly in Wilmington -- Brass ankles speaks; v. 3. Short stories.
• Grimké, Charlotte L. Forten. "The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké." Intro. Brenda E. Stevenson. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xlix+609 pp.
• Harper, Frances E. W. "Iola Leroy; or Shadows Uplifted. (1893)." Intro. Frances Smith Foster. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxix+282 pp.
• Harper, Frances E. W. "Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper." Intro. Maryemma Graham. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. lx+232 pp.
• Hopkins, Pauline. "Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South." Intro. Richard Yarborough. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xlviii+402 pp.
• Hopkins, Pauline. "The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins." Intro. Hazel V. Carby. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xlix+621 pp.
• Houchins, Sue E., comp. "Spiritual Narratives." New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xliv+84+97+124+140 pp. Includes: "Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel (1849)"; "Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society (1835)"; "Brand Plucked from the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A. J. Foote (1886)"; "Twenty-year's experience of a missionary by Virginia W. Broughton."
• Jacobs, Harriet. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Intro. Valerie Smith. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xl+306 pp.
• Johnson, Mrs. A. E. "Clarence and Corinne, or, God's Way. (1890)." Intro. Hortense Spillers. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxviii+187 pp.
• Johnson, Mrs. A. E. "The Hazeley Family." Intro. Barbara Christian. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxvii+191 pp.
• Keckley, Elizabeth. "Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the the White House. (1868)" Intro. James Olney. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xvi+371 pp.
• Kelley, Emma Dunham. "Megda." Intro. Molly Hite. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxvii+394 pp.
• Kelley-Hawkins, Emma Dunham. "Four Girls at Cottage City. (1898)." Intro. Deborah E. McDowell. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxviii+379 pp.
• Larison, Cornelius Wilson. "Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom. (1883)." Intro. Jared C. Lobdell. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxvii+117+124 pp.
• Mossell, Mrs. N. F. "The Work of the Afro-American Woman. (1894)." Intro. Joanne M. Braxton. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xlii+178 pp.
• Plato, Ann. "Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry." Intro. Kenny J. Williams. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. liii+122 pp.
• Seacole, Mary. "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. (1857)." Intro. William L. Andrews. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xxxlv+200 pp.
• Sherman, Joan R., comp. "Collected Black Women's Poetry." 4 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. Includes: v. 1. Loew's bridge ; A Broadway idyl ; Poems / Mary E. Tucker (Lambert) -- Infelicia / Adah Isaacs Menken. v. 2. Magnolia leaves / Mary Weston Fordham -- Ethiope lays / Priscilla Jane Thompson. Gleanings of quiet hours / Priscilla Jane Thompson -- Songs from the wayside / Clara Ann Thompson. v. 3. Poems / H. Cordelia Ray -- Prejudice unveiled and other poems / Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer. v. 4. Morning glories / Josephine D. (Henderson) Heard -- Poems / Eloise Bibb -- Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour ; Tales of the time told in rhyme / Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Autobiography and poems / Mrs. Henry Linden.
• Smith, Amanda Berry. "An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist. (1893)." Intro. Jualynne E. Dodson. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xlii+506 pp.
• Wheatley, Phillis. "The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley." With essay by John C. Shields. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. xl+339 pp.
Volumes 31-40 (1991):
• Ammons, Elizabeth, ed. "Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920." New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxxiv + 608 pp.
• Andrews, William L, Introduction. "Two Biographies by African-American Women." New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xliii + 471 pp.
• Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward. "The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks." Ed. Bernice F. Guillaume. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxxi + 321 pp.
• Deskins, David., ed. "The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith." New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxxiv + 348 pp.,
• Grimké, Angelina Weld. "Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimke." Ed. Carolivia Herron. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxx + 449 pp.
• Potter, Eliza. "A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life." Introduction by Sharon G. Dean. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. lix + 294 pp.
• Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman. "The Works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman." Ed. Claudia Tate. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxxi + 437 pp.
• Truth, Sojourner. "Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from her 'Book of Life.'" Introduction by Jeffrey C. Stewart. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xlvii + 320 pp.
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett." Intro. Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxxi + 322 pp.
• Yellin, Jean Fagan, and Cynthia D. Bond. "The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women Before 1910 with Secondary Bibliography to the Present." New York: Oxford UP, 1991. xxi + 349 pp.

Online access

• "African American Women Writers of the 19th Century." "New York Public Library, Digital Schomburg". 1999. Web . ["a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers" (website)]
Authors included in these digital transcriptions:
• Albert, Octavia V. Rogers "House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and other slaves"
• Anonymous "Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured woman"
• Bibb, Eloise 'Poems"
• Broughton, Virginia W. "Twenty year's experience of a missionary"
• Brown, Hallie Q. "Homespun heroines and other women of distinction"
• Brown, Josephine "Biography of an American bondman"
• Burton, Annie L. "Memories of childhood's slavery days"
• Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward "Driftwood"
• Delany, Lucy A. "From the darkness cometh the light or, struggles for freedom"
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice "Goodness of St. Rocque and other stories"
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice "Violets and other tales"
• Foote, Julia A. J. "Brand plucked from the fire. An autobiographical sketch"
• Fordham, Mary Weston "Magnolia leaves: Poems"
• Harper, Frances E. W. "Iola Leroy or, Shadows uplifted"
• Heard, Josephine D. Henderson "Morning glories"
• Hopkins, Pauline E. "Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South"
• Jacobs, Harriet A. "Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Written by herself"
• Johnson, Amelia E. "Hazeley Family"
• Johnson, Maggie Pogue "Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour ; tales of the time"
• Keckley, Elizabeth "Behind the scenes or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House"
• Lee, Jarena "Religious experience journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee : giving an account of her call to preach the gospel"
• Mattison, Hiram "Louisa Picquet, the octoroon; or, Inside views of southern domestic life"
• Menken, Adah Isaacs "Infelicia"
• Mosell, N.F. "The work of the Afro-American woman"
• Plato, Ann "Essays : including biographies and miscellaneous pieces, in prose and poetry"
• Prince, Mary "History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave"
• Prince, Nancy "A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince"
• Ray, H. Cordelia "Poems"
• Rollin, Frank [Frances] A. "Life and public services of Martin R. Delany"
• Smith, Amanda "An Autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist"
• Smith, Effie Waller "Rhymes from the Cumberland"
• Smith, Effie Waller "Songs of the months"
• Stewart, Maria "Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart presented to the first Africa Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston"
• Taylor, Susie King "Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. volunteers"
• Thompson, Clara Ann "Songs from the wayside"
• Thompson, Priscilla Jane "Ethiope Lays"
• Thompson, Priscilla Jane "Gleanings of quiet hours"
• Truth, Sojourner "Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bonds-woman of olden time"
• Tucker, Mary E. "Loew's Bridge a Broadway Idle"
• Tucker, Mary E. "Poems"
• Veney, Bethany "The Narrative of Bethany Veney, slave woman"
• Wheatley, Phillis "Poems on various subjects, religious and moral"

About the anthology

• Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for nonfiction in 1989 (although many of the volumes in the series are works of fiction)

Reviews and notices of anthology

• Ammons, Elizabeth. "Black American Literature Forum" 22.4 (1988): 811-27. JSTOR
• Foster, Frances Smith. "'It Behooves Us to Struggle.'" "Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature" 11.2 (1992): 349-54. JSTOR.
• George, Hermon, Jr. "Rediscovering Black Women's Literature." [review essay.] "Black Scholar" 22.4 (1992): 29-36. JSTOR.
• Sundquist, Eric J. "A Great American Flowering." "New York Times" 3 July 1988: Sec. 7, p. 1.
• George, Hermon, Jr. "The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers [Vols. 31-40]." "Nineteenth-Century Prose" 20.1 (1993).

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A0239

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