Four Girls at Cottage City

by Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins, Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)

Overview

This book tells the story of four carefree young women who, while vacationing at a Massachusetts resort, embark on a struggle for salvation and commit themselves to Christian service. Combining conventions of spiritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, Emma Kelley-Hawkins presents a powerful spiritual message alongside a belief in the strength of matrifocal communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052428
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 6.46(h) x 1.23(d)

Editorial Reviews

"In Four Girls at Cottage City Kelley combines conventions from spiritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel...her aim...was to show readers how they should live....It is...fruitful to see Kelley as one precursor of the spiritual feminism that is currently resonating throughout contemporary Afro-American women's fiction..."—Deborah E. McDowell, in her Introduction

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