Sister Josepha: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led to her becoming a teacher at a public school in New Orleans.

In 1895, when she was 20, she published her first collection of short stories and poems, `Violets and Other Tales', and moved to New York City where she co-founded and taught at ...