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African American women poets

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• Women poets, American

• African American women poets -- Biography

• Afro-American women poets
• Women poets, African American

• Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro-slave poet of Boston., by Phillis Wheatley, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Obour Tanner, and printer John Wilson and Son, ed. by Charles Deane, contrib. by William L. Clements and Charles Eliot Norton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A psychic autobiography / (New York : Greaves Publishing Co., c1910), by Amanda Theodocia Jones and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from American female poets : with brief biographical notices / (Philadelphia : H. Hooker, 1842), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American female poets : with biographical and critical notices / (Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854, c1848), ed. by Caroline May (page images at HathiTrust)
• What can a woman do : or, her position in the business and literary world / (Detroit, Mich. : F.B. Dickerson, 1887), by M. L. Rayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A psychic autobiography, (New York, Greaves Publishing Company, [c1910]), by Amanda Theodocia Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• What can a woman do : or, her position in the business and literary world / (Detroit, Mich. ; St. Louis, Mo. ; Cincinnati, Ohio : F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1885), by M. L. Rayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A psychic autobiography / (London : William Rider & Son ; New York : Greaves Publishing Co., [1911]), by Amanda Theodocia Jones and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What can a woman do, or, Her position in the business and literary world : illustrated / (Detroit, Mich. : F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1887), by M. L. Rayne (page images at HathiTrust)

• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)