Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature across genre that engaged deeply with both her activism and questions of aesthetics, craft, and art. Still, while Harper was well-known during her lifetime, many twentieth-century critics dismissed or ignored her. Even amid interest spurred by a new generation of scholars, Harper has often ...