| LC control no. | n 50026651 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS1799.H7 |
| Personal name heading | Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 |
| Variant(s) | Watkins, Frances Ellen, 1825-1911 Harper, F. E. W. (Frances Ellen Watkins), 1825-1911 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1825-09-24 |
| Death date | 1911-02-20 |
| Place of birth | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | American Women's Suffrage Association National Council of Women of the United States National Council of Negro Women Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Profession or occupation | African American poets Lecturers Abolitionists |
| Found in | Poems on miscellaneous subjects, 1857: t.p. (Frances Ellen Watkins) Idylls of the Bible, 1975: t.p. (F.E.W. Harper) Iola Leroy; or, Shadows uplifted, 1988: t.p. (Frances E.W. Harper) Complete poems of Frances E.W. Harper, 1988 A brighter coming day : a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader, c1990 Poems, c1998: t.p. (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) Wikipedia, 30 Jan. 2009: under Frances Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, African American abolitionist and poet; born 24 Sept. 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland; married Fenton Harper in 1860; died 22 Feb. 1911) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins; Frances Ellen Watkins; fiction writer, poet, political activist; born 24 September 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States; moved to Ohio and began working as a teacher at the Union Seminary near Columbus (1850); initiated her career as a public speaker in New Bedford, Massachusetts (1854); enlisted as a traveling lecturer for the Maine Antislavery Society; participated in many women's organizations, including the American Women's Suffrage Association, the National Council of Women, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; was vice president of the National Council of Negro Women; died 20 February 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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