Publisher's Synopsis
"African American Women Writers", 1910-1940 is a projected 30-volume series consisting of facsimile reprints of works by black women writers published during the first half of the 20th century. The collection covers a wide range of general fiction, poetry, drama, biography and autobiography, essay and history. Many of which appear here for the first time since their original publication.;Maggie Shaw Fullilove's novel is a portrait of a young reformer's efforts on behalf of the temperance movement. Her stories deal not with racial or social protest but with domestic and marital relations. "The Resentment", by Mary Etta Spencer, is a racial "rags to riches" tale of a young man motivated to succeed by the resentment he harbours towards those who would make him feel racially inferior.
