Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900

LC control no.	n 83064162
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3334.W39
Personal name heading	Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wilson, H. E. (Harriet E.), 1825-1900 Wilson, Harriet E., 1808-approximately 1870 Wilson, Hattie E., 1825-1900 W., H. E., 1825-1900 H. E. W., 1825-1900 Wilson, H. E., Mrs., 1825-1900 Adams, Harriet, 1825-1900 Robinson, Hattie E., Mrs. 1825-1900
Associated country	United States
Birth date	18250315
Death date	19000629
Place of birth	Milford (N.H)
Place of death	Quincy (Mass.)
Affiliation	Massachusetts Spiritualists Association
Profession or occupation	Household employees Novelists Spiritualists Mediums
Found in	Her Our nig, 1983: CIP t.p. (Our Nig) pub. info. sheet (H. E. Wilson (Harriet E.) Wilson; b. 1808; d. ca. 1870) book cover (Harriet E. Wilson) Phone call to L. Ruckenstein, Viking Books, 2/3/83 (H. E. Wilson will be on cover) NUC (Wilson, Mrs. H. E.) Our nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black, 2005: t.p. (Harriet E. Wilson) p. i (Hattie E. Wilson; b. 1825 in Milford, N.H.; m. in 1851 to Thomas Wilson, and in 1871 to John Gallatin Robinson; d. 1900 in Quincy, Mass.) p. vii (Harriet E. "Hattie" Adams ("Alfrado" or "Frado")) p. xiii (d. June 28, 1900 in Quincy Hospital Mass.) p. xiv (death certificate for Mrs. Hattie E. Wilson, found in Massachusetts Deaths 506:95 of Massachusetts Archives, dated June 29, 1900) Britannica online, Apr. 25, 2005 (Harriet E. Wilson, nee Harriet E. Adams; b. 1828?, Milford, N.H.? d. 1863?, Boston, Mass.?; her marriage license, issued in 1852, gave her birthplace as Milford, N.H., the 1860 federal census of Boston listed a Mrs. Harriet E. Wilson, b. in 1807 or 1808 in Fredericksburg, Va., material in Our Nig suggests that its author lived in Massachusetts in 1859, after 1863 Wilson disappeared from official public records) <http://www.britannica.com> African American National Biography, accessed September 22, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wilson, Harriet E; Harriet Adams; servant, writer; born c.1828 probably in Milford, New Hampshire, United States; no record of Harriet's education; spent her childhood and adolescence living with and in service to the Nehemiah Hayward family; copyrighted her novel Our Nig and published it in 1859 - the first novel published by an African American in the United States and one of the first novels published by a Black woman in any country; died c.1863 in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States) Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig, 1859: title page verso (Mrs. H.E. Wilson), preface (H.E.W.) Harriet E. Wilson Biography, via HarrietWilsonProject.net, 25 January 2021 (Harriet E. "Hattie" Adams; variants: Mrs. Hattie E. Wilson; Mrs. Hattie E. Robinson; born 15 March 1825 in Milford, NH to Joshua Green (d. ca. 1828) and Margaret Adams (or Smith; d. March, 1830); died 28 June 1900 in Quincy, MA); served the Hayward family as an indentured servant beginning ca. 1830 through 1843 or 1846; attended school between 1832-1834; worked variously as a seamstress, household employee, and started business selling hair products ("Mrs. H.E. Wilson's Hair Dressing"); poem "Fading Away" by "Hattie" published in the Farmer's Cabinet (6 December 1851); began writing novel "Our Nig" between 1855-1860, copyrighted & publised in 1859; became a significant figure in the Spiritualist movement; by 1867 listed in Spiritualist newspaper, Banner of Light, as a trance medium and joined the Massachusetts Spiritualists Association; gives addresses and lectures (sometimes in trance) at various Spiritualist meetings, conventions, and camps throughout New England alongside figures such as Andrew Jackson Davis and Victoria Woodhull; 1873 attended the American Association of Spiritualists Convention of Chicago as a delagate from Massachusetts; remained active as a trance reader and lecturer through the late 1890's; marriages: 1) Thomas Wilson (d. 30 May 1853), married in Milford, NH on 6 October 1851; issue: George Mason Wilson (b. ca. 15 June 1852, d. 15 February 1860); 2) John Gallatin Robinson, married in Boston on 29 September 1870)
Associated language	eng