Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry
ISBN-10
0195052471
ISBN-13
9780195052473
Series
Essays
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
122
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Ann Plato

Description

"Ann Plato was the first black to publish a collection of essays, in 1841."--Newsweek

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