LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Going East by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.<br />This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 2, 2021. <br /> ------<br />Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. She was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.<br />Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at the age of 20. At 67, she published her widely-praised novel Iola Leroy (1892), placing her among the first Black women to publish a novel. - Summary by Wikipedia
