Research Catalog

Title

The work of the Afro-American woman / by Mrs. N. F. Mossell.

Author

Mossell, N. F., Mrs., 1855-1948.

Publication

Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1908.

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Details

Additional Authors

Geo. S. Ferguson Company, publisher.

Description

178, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• African American women
• Black author
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• African American women > Poetry
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• African American women journalists
• American poetry > African American authors

Genre/Form

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright by Mrs. N.F. Mossell 1894."--verso of title page.
• [4] pages of advertisements at end.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

• from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page "Gertrude Bustill Mossell." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

The work of the Afro-American woman -- A sketch of Afro-American literature -- The Afro-American woman in verse -- Our women in journalism -- Our Afro-American representatitves at the World's Fair -- The opposite point of view -- A lofty study -- Caste in universities -- Verse: Two questions ; Love's promptings ; Good night ; Life ; My babes that never grow old ; Earth's sorrows ; Query and answer ; Words ; Tell the North that we are rising ; The martyrs of to-day ; A greeting song to our brothers in Africa ; Child of the Southland ; Why baby was named Chris ; Only ; Beautiful things ; Three hours ; The story of a life.

Call Number

Sc Rare 396-M (Mossell, G. Work of the Afro-American woman)

LCCN

77377724 //r922

OCLC

• 2517428
• NYPGR2517428-B

Author

Mossell, N. F., Mrs., 1855-1948.

Title

The work of the Afro-American woman / by Mrs. N. F. Mossell.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1908.

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 396-M (accession no. B526338) inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page "Gertrude Bustill Mossell." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 396-M (Mossell, G. Work of the Afro-American woman), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of Michigan copy)

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Geo. S. Ferguson Company, publisher.

Mossell, N. F., Mrs., 1855-1948, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 396-M (Mossell, G. Work of the Afro-American woman)

IEC (Mossell, G. E. H. B. Work of the Afro-American woman)

*WIY 97-29