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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)

Forfatter af Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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Værker af Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Violets and Other Tales (2008) 10 eksemplarer
The Goodness of St. Rocque (2004) 8 eksemplarer
Sister Josepha (2004) 2 eksemplarer
People of Color in Louisiana (1916) 2 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Great Short Stories by American Women (1996) — Bidragyder — 408 eksemplarer
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Bidragyder — 233 eksemplarer
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Bidragyder — 170 eksemplarer
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers (2017) — Bidragyder — 65 eksemplarer
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (1993) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (1989) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 (1996) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
Best Loved Short Stories of Nineteenth Century America (2003) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1832-1916 (1994) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories (2018) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Graphic Classics: African-American Classics (2011) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Black Theater USA : 45 Plays By Black Americans : 1847-1974 (1973) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women (2023) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Women of the Harlem Renaissance (2022) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
Andre navne
Nelson, Alice Dunbar
Moore, Alice Ruth
Wright, Monroe
Fødselsdato
1875-07-19
Dødsdag
1935-09-18
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Dødssted
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bopæl
Harlem, New York, USA
Uddannelse
Straight University
Cornell University
Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art
University of Pennsylvania
Erhverv
novelist
poet
essayist
critic
teacher
columnist (vis alle 9)
public speaker
diarist
women's suffrage leader
Relationer
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (husband)
Kort biografi
Alice Ruth Moore was born to a racially-mixed, middle-class family in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1892, she graduated from Straight University (now Dillard) and began her career as a teacher. Her first collection of short stories and poems, Violets and Other Tales, was published in 1895 in The Monthly Review. In 1898, she married Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet and journalist, after a courtship by correspondence that began when he saw Alice's picture printed with one of her poems. She moved with him to Washington, D.C. Paul Dunbar provide to be an alcoholic and abusive husband, and Alice left him in 1902 and moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught at Howard University. She continued to publish under the name Alice Dunbar. Many of her short stories and plays were rejected by publishers and producers because they focused on racial oppression. She also wrote poetry, essays, and newspaper articles. In 1913-1914, she was co-editor and writer for the A.M.E. Review, one of the most influential church publications of the era. She published Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence in 1914. The collection Caroling Dusk (1927) included "I Sit and Sew," her powerful poem about World War I. She became a field organizer for the women's suffrage movement and campaigned for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. After her third marriage in 1916 to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist, she used the surname Dunbar-Nelson. In 1920, she edited and published The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, a literary and news magazine aimed at a Black audience. With Nelson, she co-edited the Wilmington Advocate. She became a successful columnist for various newspapers and a popular public speaker. Her diary was published in 1984.

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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This concise mint edition features three writings from people who knew Paul Laurence Dunbar well: his wife, Alice Dunbar Nelson, William S. Scarborough, and Reverdy C. Ransom. Each person brings a unique perspective of Dunbar as a poet, and an African American man. Alice shares Dunbar's love of nature and how he integrated nature and race into his poems. William S. Scarborough writes about the unveiling of the poet's monument event, sharing his thoughts about the poet and the event. Reverdy pays homage to Dunbar's ancestry.… (mere)
 
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AdwoaCamaraIfe | 4 andre anmeldelser | May 4, 2022 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This brief monograph is a reprint of a text from 1914. Its 32 pages contain three essays; the longest is by Dunbar's wife, emphasizes his connection to nature, and read as if it was written in response to some criticism. The other two essays are also somewhat personal. None of them is literary criticism as we think of it today; rather, they are appreciations of the man and his work in general. Probably useful mostly to those who want a brief look at who Dunbar was and why he is revered.
½
 
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Jim53 | 4 andre anmeldelser | Apr 6, 2022 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Quite a few years ago I acquired a rather bedraggled book entitled "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar", published in 1926. I knew nothing about the poet but was interested in the fact that he was Black. So, despite the condition of the book, I added it to the twenty some books of American, English and German poetry that I already had in my library. Over the years I have enjoyed reading Dunbar's poetry, even getting a kick out of some of his Black dialect renderings. I did a bit of research on him. He died young of tuberculosis in 1906 at the age of just 33. He had a number of challenges in his life, not the least being alchohol and a tendency toward volence under its influence. But he was recognized in the United States and Europe during his short life as a poet of merit.
So, when Library Thing as part of its Early Rviewer program listed the booklet "Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race", I requested a copy and was fortunate enough to receive one.
The booklet (soft cover and just 32 pages of text) contains three essays on Dunbar's life and poetry, written by other recognized Black poets or scholars of the time. Originally published in 1914, the booklet being reviewed here is a 2021 reprint by Mint Editions.
The first essay is a lengthy one by his wife, Alice Dunbar Nelson. They were married just four years before she separated from him in 1902 because of his alcholholism and abuse. She was a poet and a master of the English language in her own right, as demonstrated by her essay in honor of Dunbar's attachment to nature. The second essay is by William S. Scarborough, a Black acedemic. The third essay, the shortest of the three, is by Reverdy C. Ransom, a Black minister. Each essay gives interesting insights into the life of Dunbar and the depth of his creativity through his poetry. It is a welcome supplement to my sad looking but precious book of Dunbar's poetry.
There is a bit of a fly in the ointment, however. While the booklet is attractively laid out and the cover is intereesting, the editing of the volume was sadly lacking. I fear that we have become too dependent on computers to do spell check, grammar checks and sentence structure analysis. But it is my opinion that there is nothing to compare to the ability of a good, live editor when it comes to the actual act of editing a work. The number of errors that slipped by in just 32 pages of text does not speak well of Mint Editions editing department.
… (mere)
 
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BlaueBlume | 4 andre anmeldelser | Apr 6, 2022 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This is a nice reprint from Mint Editions of a 1914 pamphlet containing three essays about poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The first, and longest, is by Dunbar's wife, Alice Dunbar Nelson; her writing is erudite, but it reads like she is responding to some contemporary criticism so at times I felt like I was reading only one half a conversation. The remaining two pieces are powerful panegyrics by William S. Scarborough and Reverdy C. Ransom.
½
 
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amanda4242 | 4 andre anmeldelser | Mar 24, 2022 |

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