Frances E.W. Harper card, [ca. 1895].

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Frances E.W. Harper card, [ca. 1895].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124061851

Small calling card bearing Frances E.W. Harper's signature and street address in Philadelphia, and four lines from a poem. The card (8 cm.) is housed in a vertical clamshell box resembling a small book (14 cm.).

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Cornell University Library

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Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911

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Frances Harper was born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland to free parents. Her writing career began in 1839 for anti-slavery publications. She published two books of poetry (1845, 1854). In 1859, Harper published the short story "The Two Offers" in Anglo-African Magazine, making her the first Black woman to publish a short story. She also wrote 3 serialized novels for magazines in 1868-1888, and another novel in 1892. Starting in 1850, Harper moved to Ohio and began work as the first...