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Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911), a popular lecturer, poet, and author, was a leader in the suffrage and temperance movements and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women.
One of the most significant contributions to early Black literature. -Jane Campbell, Belle Lettres This edition of Iola Leroy, with Hazel Carby's introduction, is required reading. -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A moving rite of passage story, the 'ordeal of suffering' of an enlightened black girl growing up. . . . A superior book. -Doris Grumbach, National Public Radio In an era full of extraordinary black women, Frances Watkins Harper . . . was one of the most extraordinary among them. If she had published nothing else, Iola Leroy would have been sufficient of her to claim a place among the intellectuals of her time. -Nellie McKay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
