A growing series of anthologies that honors the brilliant, significant, and nearly forgotten literary art by the women who helped forge an African American renaissance of art and ideals.
STORIES, POEMS & PERSONAL ESSAYS
As a writer, editor, mentor, and diplomat, Jessie Redmon Fauset was an essential, unwavering, and unsung force of the Harlem Renaissance. This volume honors Jessie Fauset’s exceptional and often overlooked talent as a writer. It includes ALL of Fauset's SHORT STORIES and PERSONAL ESSAYS, and 13 of her most celebrated POEMS, all published in the NAACP magazine, The Crisis. Also included: the original story ILLUSTRATIONS, a concise and accurate BIOGRAPHY, biographical PHOTOS and documents, and a BIBLIOGRAPHY.
This is the first meticulous collection of Fauset's writing, well-researched, transcribed, and organized, A concise and accurate biography enhances a unique and powerful reading experience.
Jessie Fauset grew up in Philadelphia and was one of the first African American women to graduate from Cornell. While teaching at the prestigious Dunbar High School, she contributed essays, stories, poems and reviews to The Crisis, and in 1919, at the invitation of W.E.B. DuBois, she become its Literary Editor. During her long and active tenure, Fauset fostered and published many Harlem Renaissance greats, including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, and Georgia Douglas Johnson.In his memoir, Langston Hughes commends Fauset as one of the three “midwives” of the Harlem Renaissance. Fauset co-founded and edited The Brownies' Book, a magazine designed to entertain and empower African American children, and was one of its main contributors. She traveled internationally as a reporter and as a representative of the Pan-African Conference.
From her first contributions to The Crisis in 1912, to her last novel in 1933, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s varied and extensive body of literary art encompassed the entire era of the Harlem Renaissance—and beyond. She produced the most essays and novels of any African American woman of the time and was a prolific writer of short stories, essays, and poems for adults and children.
Among the dozens of essays Fauset wrote, her personal narratives are the most acclaimed. Her short stories are precursors to her four popular novels, where she challenged norms by centering them around African American women in middle class settings, addressing themes of racial identity, self-esteem, gender restraints, class conflicts, and institutional racism. Her poetry, in addition to their publication in The Crisis, has been anthologized many times.
STORIES, POEMS & PLAYS BY BOSTON'S WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Because the Harlem Renaissance wasn’t limited to Harlem...
Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club published its celebrated literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill, annually from 1928 to 1930. The three issues contain stories, poems, and plays by some of the most talented, prolific, and distinguished African American writers of the era. W.E.B. Du Bois said of The Saturday Evening Quill, “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, this collection from Boston is by far the most interesting and the best.”
This complete collection, encompassing all three issues, honors the contributions by the women of the Saturday Evening Quill Club.
17 Stories, 2 Plays, 75 Poems, and 2 Illustrated Poems for Children by Dorothy West, Helene Johnson, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Schalk, Florida Ruffin Ridley, Alice E. Furlong, Florence Marion Harmon, Marion G. Conover, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Grace Vera Postles, and Lois M. Jones
Including three of Dorothy West’s early stories: “An Unimportant Man,” “Prologue to a Life,” and “Funeral”
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