Who is Frances Harper?

Answer 1

= Frances Harper is a famous author =

Her mother died when she was three years old in 1828 and after that, Harper was looked after by her aunt and uncle. She was educated at a school run by her uncle, Rev. William Watkins, until the age of fourteen when she found work as a seamstress. Her first volume of verse, Forest Leaves, was published in 1845, the book was extremely popular and over the next few years went through 20 editions. In 1850, she started working in Columbus, Ohio as a schoolteacher. Three years later in 1853, she joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and became a traveling lecturer for the group. She married Fenton Harper in 1860. She was also a strong supporter of prohibition and woman's suffrage as well as a member of the Unitarian Church. She often would read her poetry at these public meetings, including the extremely popular Bury Me in a Free Land.

Frances Harper died on 22 February 1911.