Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Minnie's Sacrifice

Terry Novak (Johnson and Wales University)
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Minnie's Sacrifice

,

Sowing and Reaping

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Trial and Triumph

represent a significant boon to African-American literary studies in general and to the canon of Frances E. W. Harper specifically. The three novels were only recently re-discovered, in the early 1990's, by literary scholar Frances Smith Foster. Previous to this time, it was the assumption of the literary world that Harper's only novel was

Iola Leroy

. Through a great deal of literary detective work, Foster discovered the three missing novels, which had originally been serialized in

The Christian Recorder

, a vehicle of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church which had also published several of Harper's essays, short stories, and poems. Each of the three novels deals with the social issues of the day that were most pressing…

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Citation: Novak, Terry. "Minnie's Sacrifice". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10171, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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