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Magnolia Leaves

by Mary Weston Fordham

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1897
Pages
116
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This collection gathers the poems of Mary Weston Fordham, an African American teacher and writer from Charleston, South Carolina. Her verses move across faith, family, mourning, nature, and public occasion, written in the polished, formal style favored by nineteenth-century poets. The 1897 volume appeared with a short preface by Booker T. Washington, a mark of the regard in which she was held. Fordham left little biographical trace, which makes this book one of the few windows into her inner life and the concerns of educated Black women of the post-Reconstruction South. It remains valued today by scholars of early African American literature and by readers recovering neglected voices.

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Mary Weston Fordham

Mary Weston Fordham was a nineteenth-century African American poet and educator from Charleston, South Carolina. She taught in schools serving freed families during and after Reconstruction. Little is recorded of her life, but her poetry drew the endorsement of Booker T. Washington and lasting scholarly attention.

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First published
1897
Reading time
About 1 hour
Pages
116
Language
English
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