Author Description

Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1890-?) appeared briefly as a poet and short story writer in the twenties and thirties and was particularly active, through her connection to the Saturday Evening Quill Club, in black intellectual and cultural life in the Boston of the late twenties. This volume includes not only three stories and thirteen poems, the bulk of which were originally published in the Saturday Evening Quill, but also the first publication of Gordon's Boston University M.A. thesis, "The Status of the Negro Woman in the United States from 1619-1865."