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Four Girls at Cottage City (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (edition 1988)

by Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins, Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)

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This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at a Massachusetts resort - a vacation that ultimately leads to their struggle for salvation and their commitment to Christian service. Combining conventions from spritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, the book sets off on an evangelical mission aimed at showing readers how they should live.… (more)
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Title:Four Girls at Cottage City (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Authors:Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins
Other authors:Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)
Info:Oxford University Press, USA (1988), Hardcover, 430 pages
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This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at a Massachusetts resort - a vacation that ultimately leads to their struggle for salvation and their commitment to Christian service. Combining conventions from spritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, the book sets off on an evangelical mission aimed at showing readers how they should live.

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