Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy. Wayne State University Press, 1994.
116-17, 126, 225
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | She attended night classes so that she could continue teaching during the day to support herself and her children. In 1871, at the end of her two-year programme, she ended her studies but did not... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | Mary Ann Shadd developed a friendly relationship with Frances E. W. Harper
, and a sometimes cordial, sometimes antagonistic, relationship with Frederick Douglass
and Martin Delany
on her lecture tours, through her work as editor... |
Friends, Associates | Sojourner Truth | ST
's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln
downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass
on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God... |
Friends, Associates | Frances E. W. Harper | Her work for women's rights and racial equality in the United States led to relationships with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Harriet Tubman
, Frederick Douglass
, Susan B. Anthony
, and Lucretia Mott
. Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy. Wayne State University Press, 1994. 116-17, 126, 225 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Jacobs | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Carpenter | In BostonMC
met Julia Ward Howe
and Lucretia Mott
. At Howard College
she was introduced by Frederick Douglass
, an old friend. Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881. 330-1, 323 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
wrote to a man she had never met, Frederick Douglass
, for information about life on a southern cotton plantation to help her in writing her periodical serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 218 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | The novel's central trope is mirrors, which function to explore identity, beauty, and the perception of oneself and others. Besides the Snow White tale, the novel remediates African folk tales about Anansi, who takes the... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Heyrick | The United States was more generous in its praise than England, or at any rate than London. Benjamin Lundy
, William Lloyd Garrison
, Frederick Douglass
, and Lucretia Mott
all admired her, and for... |
Occupation | Pandita Ramabai | Her time in the USA was largely spent fundraising: on 13 December 1887 she founded the Ramabai Association
to fund the creation of a home that would educate young, high-caste widows in Bombay(now Mumbai)... |
Publishing | Frances E. W. Harper | Her work was inflected by abolitionist authors who came before her. In 1854 she published in The Liberator and Frederick Douglass
' Paper the poem Eliza Harris, named for a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Publishing | Mary Ann Shadd Cary | The career of Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary)
in political writing began with the publication of a Letter she had written to Frederick Douglass
in the current issue of his periodical, the North Star. Cary, Mary Ann Shadd. “Letter”. North Star, edited by Frederick Douglass, 23 Mar. 1849, pp. 32-3. 32-3 |
Reception | Ann Hawkshaw | Debbie Bark
, comparing Hawkshaw's Why am I a Slave? with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Frederick Douglass
's My Bondage and My Freedom, argues that AH
does... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all... |