From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall s novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as
Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900 focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society. Looking critically at t
Nine Black Women brings together for the first time work by some of the earliest black women writers from the Eastern and Western Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, and the United States. The writings here r
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and aboli
"An invaluable resource to scholars interested in feminist thought.... " —Ruth Perry"Anyone interested in women’s history or feminist thought must read this book." —Lillian Faderman"Moira Ferguson has
Mary Prince was the first black British woman to escape from slavery and publish a record of her experiences. In this unique document, Mary Prince vividly recalls her life as a slave in Bermuda, Turks
Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centu
