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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
- Frances Ellen Watkins, September 24, 1825, Baltimore, Maryland
- Iola Leroy (1892), Sketches of Southern Life (1872)
- February 22, 1911 (aged 85), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Poet, author, and lecturer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the first African American woman to publish a short story and was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer. Discover more at womenshistory.org.
Born in Baltimore, poet, fiction writer, journalist, and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the only child of free African American parents. She was raised by her aunt and uncle after her mother died when Frances was three years old. She attended the Academy for Negro Youth, a school run by…
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Feb 7, 2023 · Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist - The New York Times. One of the best-known Black poets of the 19th century, she was also a renowned orator. “You white...
1825 –. 1911. Read poems by this poet. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born on September 24, 1825, in Baltimore and raised by her aunt and uncle. A poet, novelist, and journalist, Harper was also a prominent abolitionist and an activist in the temperance and women’s suffrage movements.
Feb 17, 2020 · Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. (Library of Congress) Philadelphia got a public memorial statue three years ago outside City Hall for an African American figure few people knew about: Octavius Catto.
Poetry towards Progress: Frances E. W. Harper. An activist, a teacher, a poet — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an extraordinary figure in American history. She was born free in the city of Baltimore in 1825, orphaned at the age of three, and grew up under the tutelage of her uncle Rev. William Watkins.
