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Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897

LC control no.n 50027972
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingJacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
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Variant(s)Jacobs, Harriet Brent, 1818-1896
Jacobs, Harriet Ann, 1813-1897
Brent, Linda, 1813-1897
Other standard no.0000000121310444
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1813
Death date1897-03-07
Place of birthEdenton (N.C.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationJacobs Free School Women's Loyal National League American Equal Rights Association
Profession or occupationSocial reformers Authors
Found inIncidents in the life of a slave girl , 1861.
Incidents in the life of a slave girl, 1983, c1966: CIP t.p. (Linda Brent)
Incidents in the life of a slave girl, 1987: CIP t.p. (Harriet A. Jacobs) pub. info. (Harriet Ann) telcon with ed., 2/4/87 (b. autumn 1813; d. 3/7/1897; ed.'s forthcoming biog. will be published using author's real name (Jacobs) not pseud. (Brent))
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 29, 2014: (Jacobs, Harriet A.; Harriet Ann Jacobs; slave narrative author, slave, social reformer; born c.1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, United States; published Incidents as a slave pseudonymously with only the name of the white abolitionist writer L. Maria Child on the title page as editor; from 1863 to 1865, supported by Quakers and reformers, established the Jacobs Free School in occupied Alexandria, named to the executive committee of the feminist Women's Loyal National League (1864); lectured for the radical American Equal Rights Association; died 07 March 1897 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
National bib agency no.1050D3982E
Associated languageeng
Quality codenlc