Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

This was probably the best-selling novel by an Afro-American writer prior to the 20th century. Published in 1892, it went through five impressions in one year. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputuation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when this, her only novel, was published. It enjoyed a wide readership among men and women, black and white, in the US, Canada, and Britain.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Harper, Frances E. W.
Published: 04/14/1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195052404
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 6.83h x 4.90w x 1.08d