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KELLEY, EMMA DUNHAM. Megda. By "Forget-me-Not." Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial brown cloth, very slight wear at foot of
KELLEY, EMMA DUNHAM. Megda. By "Forget-me-Not." Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial brown cloth, very slight wear at foot of backstrip. Boston, 1892
- Notes: first edition, second state (of 3). One of the first novels written by an African-American woman, though the claim has been made for "Our Nig" by Harriet Wilson. Megda is the first novel that is indisputably a novel given the definitions of a novel as entertainment. "Our Nig," while by an African-American author, is a loosely fictionalized autobiographical work. Little is known of Emma Kelley aside from the fact that she was a New England school teacher and that she published another novel, Four Girls at Cottage City (1898).
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