BROWN, Hallie Q.
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction.
"All to women! The mother of man!": First edition of Hallie Q. Brown's Homespun Heroines and other Women of Distinction; inscribed by her
Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1926.
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Item Number: RRB-124146
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First edition of Hallie Quinn Brown's compilation of essays on history-making African American women. Octavo, original green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with photographs and silhouettes. Signed by the author on the front pastedown, "Hallie Q. Brown, "Homewood Cottage" Wilberforce, Ohio. Dec. 25" 1927." Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown with contributions by Maritcha R. Lyons, Charlotte E. Stephens, and Ora B. Stokes among others. Foreword by Josephine Turner Washington. Among the many notable African American women profiled are Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Dinah Cox, Phillis Wheatley, Martha Payne, and Eliza A. Gardner. In near fine condition. Books signed by Brown are rare, with no examples appearing at auction in the last eighty years.
American educator, writer and activist Hallie Quinn Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1849, one of six children of freed slaves. She attended Wilberforce University, Ohio, from 1868 to 1873 and, realizing that a great field of labor lay in the South, soon devoted herself to educating both children and adults in plantation schools she established in South Carolina and Mississippi. She later worked as a professor at Tuskegee Institute from 1892 to 1893 under Booker T. Washington, with whom she co-founded the Colored Women's League, and was a frequent lecturer on African American issues as well as temperance.
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction.
$8,800.00
Out of Stock
