Hannah Crafts

Standard Name: Crafts, Hannah

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Author summary Harriet E. Wilson
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.

Texts

Crafts, Hannah. “Introduction”. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Warner Books, 2002, p. ix - lxxv.
Crafts, Hannah. The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Editor Gates, Henry Louis, Warner Books, 2002.