Jean Fagan Yellin

Elijah Jacobs , a carpenter and a slave, has been identified as HJ 's father. He was married to Harriet's mother, and after she died he was married again and had another family of children...

More recently, however, critics have expressed regret about RHD 's decision to submit to editorial control by James T. Fields . Following Jean Fagan Yellin , Janice Milner Lasseter contended that the revised version of...

HJ 's editor and biographer Jean Fagan Yellin calls her one of a very small group of Afro-American women capable of creating a book that affords a new perspective on the American romance. She...

HJ 's work fed into an emergent tradition of black American writing. Frances E. W. Harper 's ground-breaking novel Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted was probably influenced by her (its central black characters, from North...

RHD had originally submitted the story to the Atlantic Monthly in May 1861, on encouragement from the editor, James T. Fields , and his wife, Annie . Fields, however, rejected the first version of the...

In the late twentieth century Jean Fagan Yellin , future editor and biographer of HJ , discovered a previously unknown collection of original letters written by Jacobs to Amy Post between May 1849 and June...

It originally appeared under the pseudonym Linda Brent (which is given not on the title-page but as signature to the Preface by the Author). The fact that it was edited by Lydia Maria Child