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  Two Offers - From their pens to...

  Frances E W Harper

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  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free on 24th September 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland which, at that time, was still a slave state. 
  By age 3 Frances had been orphaned and thereafter raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who also gave her her surname; Watkins. 
  At 13 she was working as a seamstress and then as a nursemaid for a white family that owned a bookshop.  Here any spare time was used to read books in the shop and work on her own writing which from 1839 included pieces in anti-slavery journals. 
  By the age of 20 Frances had published her first poetry book ‘Forest Leaves, or Autumn Leaves’, marking her out as an abolitionist voice of note.  Her second book, ‘Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects’ followed and was reprinted many times.  It was the beginning of a remarkable career both for her literary pursuits and also her social activism. 
  In 1850, at age 26, she moved to teach domestic science at Union Seminary, a school for Black students near Columbus, Ohio.  She was its first female teacher.  
  After joining the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853, Frances began her career as a public speaker and political activist. 
  In 1858, Frances refused to vacate her seat or ride in the ‘colored’ section of a segregated trolley car in Philadelphia.  That same year her poem ‘Bury Me in a Free Land’ was published in The Anti-Slavery Bugle.  She created literary history in 1859 when her short story ‘Two Offers’ was the first short story published by a Black woman.  
  In 1860 she married a widower named Fenton Harper. They had one daughter together in addition to his three children from a previous marriage. When her husband died four years later she kept custody of their daughter and moved to the East Coast. 
  Frances founded, supported, and held high office in several national progressive organizations.  In 1886 she became superintendent of the Colored Section of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union.  A decade later she helped found the National Association of Colored Women and served as its vice president. 
  Throughout her activist activities she continued to write, weaving politics into her fictional narratives.  Although her canon is small it contains work that advanced thinking on the roles of black women in society.  
  Frances E W Harper, abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, died of heart failure on 22nd February 1911 in Philadelphia.  She was 85.  Women were still not permitted to vote,

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  A Sting In The Ale

  Colin Devine

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  Love, Cruelty, Power: the three cornered stool on which the world squats. A Sting in the Ale is not a novel, it is not even an anti-novel but rather an extended meditation in short story and poetic form over the events reimagined of an otherwise uneventful life; the life of every human animal in which plot and plans fall prey to one darn thing after another. Most things were never meant to be - as the poet of lower middle class misery once observed. The modern cult of power has replaced the ancient notion of the Good as the credible measure of a fulfilled and meaningful life. To what pass is the cult of the self and the cult of power and its holyfool handmaidens leading us? Power, Cruelty and Love; the power of love, the love of power and the universal apologia of partners, jilting lovers, politicians and pimps of various persuasions insisting that one has to be cruel in order to be kind. Very often the kindness in the human animal is cruelty in waiting. A Sting in the Ale is a work of art or pornography - only the individual reader can decide.

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  My Family - By Mtdox

  Mtdox

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  In the heartwarming tale of my family journey into the lives of the Rajput family, where bonds are tested and love triumphs over all. Set against the vibrant backdrop of bustling Delhi, this novel explores the intricate dynamics of family relationships with humor, warmth, and poignancy.

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  Make Yourselves at Home: And...

  Katherine Elberfeld

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  These stories of small-town life in the American South evoke a sense of pleasant, polite community, with some blessed by strong family ties. But beneath the surface, these tales—some comic, some dark, and some both—reveal the secrets and resentments that fester in the past and haunt the present. 
   
  
   
  In the tradition of Southern writers like Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty, Katherine Elberfeld has created eccentric characters ranging from slightly odd to downright sinister. Her stories are about choices and change, with characters confronting what life has dealt them, making mistakes—sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse.

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  Demir-Kaya - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  Royally Ravished - Uncrowned...

  Elsie James

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  All three of the Royally Ravished short stories are in one place. Get ready for steamy, curvy girl insta love with royals! Fall in love and escape to the palace today. Book One: Uncrowned King 
  He’s the demanding heir to the throne. She’s a quiet commoner with a heart of gold. This is a curvy woman, friends to lovers, short story romance.Book Two: Untouched PrincessShe’s the spare living in a royal bubble. He’s being paid to protect her. This is a curvy woman, bodyguard, short story romance.Book Three: Unknown PrinceShe’s the palace’s hired help with big dreams. He’s a mysterious guest with an even bigger secret. This is a curvy woman, secret royal, short story romance.As always, this series is safe and comes with a guaranteed happily ever after, no cheating, no cliffhangers, and steamy sex scenes. Start reading today! 
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  Author Elsie James LLC. 2023. All right reserved.

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