HEW
, the first black woman to publish a novel—Hannah Crafts
may have written the first one,—in the USA, created the form for such novels by subverting the form of fiction offered her...
Timeline
Some time in the 1850s: Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave, wrote The...
Writing climate item
Some time in the 1850s
Hannah Crafts
, a fugitive slave, wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative; possibly the first novel by a black woman, it reached publication in 2002.
Crafts, Hannah. “Introduction”. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Warner Books, 2002, p. ix - lxxv.
xii, xliv-xlv, lvi
Texts
Crafts, Hannah. “Introduction”. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Warner Books, 2002, p. ix - lxxv.
Crafts, Hannah. The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Editor Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, Warner Books, 2002.