“Today women hold in their hands influence and opportunity, and with these they have already opened doors which have been closed to others.”
About Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911
In the rich tapestry of nineteenth-century American literature and reform, few figures shine as brightly—or with as enduring a flame—as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Born into freedom yet forged in the fires of racial injustice, she emerged as a poet of profound moral vision, a tireless abolitionist lecturer, a…