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"To Be An Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt 1889-1905.(Review)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 19980922
Author:MASON, JULIAN

"To Be An Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt 1889-1905, ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., and Robert C. Leitz III. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xv, 248 pp.

To me 1966 was and is an auspicious year. In the spring the University of North Carolina Press published my edition of The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, the first scholarly edition of her works, with appropriate introduction and notes, which finally made her poems and letters readily available to and appreciated by all who might read them. (In a 1989 revised and enlarged edition it is still available and ...

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