Jean Yellin takes us inside that attic with Harriet Jacobs and then follows her on her escape to the North, where she found safe haven with Quaker www.doorway.rug upon decades of original research with never-before-seen archival sources, Yellin creates a complete picture of the events that inspired Incidents and offers the first rounded picture of Jacobs's life in the thirty-six years after the book's /5(31). Description. Jean Fagan Yellin is the most widely known and respected author when examining the life of Harriet Jacobs, a slave who authored her own life story in the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl during the Civil War. Before Yellin, there was a fair amount of . Jean Yellin takes us inside that attic with Harriet Jacobs and then follows her on her escape to the North, where she found safe haven with Quaker www.doorway.rug upon decades of original research with never-before-seen archival sources, Yellin creates a complete picture of the events that inspired Incidents and offers the first rounded picture of Jacobs's life in the thirty-six years after the book's Cited by:
Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative JEAN FAGAN YELLIN Pace University I Your proposal to me has been thought over and over again, but not without some most painful remembrance. Dear Amy, if it was the life of a heroine with no degradation associated with it! Far better to have been one of the starving poor of Ireland whose bones had to bleach on the. Jean Fagan Yellin, in her book HARRIET JACOBS A LIFE, has given to all of us a monumental story of courage, determination, and perseverance. Researching Harriet Jacobs' book, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, must have been a daunting task for Yellin, but the scholarship she presents in her Harvard edition of INCIDENTS gives a clearer picture of the struggle Harriet Jacobs endured. SIDELIGHTS: Jean Fagan Yellin has spent many years researching the life of Harriet Jacobs, a slave in the American South. Jacobs was born into slavery, but she learned to read as a child with the help of her first mistress.
Dr. Yellin, author of a biography of Harriet Jacobs, discusses in this exclusive interview how she found the real historic person behind the author of the on. Jean Yellin, Harriet Ann Jacobs. Basic Books, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 0 Reviews. In this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet. In this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, one of the most widely read slave narratives of all time, recounts through the pseudonymous character named "Linda" the adventures of a young female slave who spent seven years in her grandmother's attic hiding from her sexually abusive and cruel master.
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