Horace, Lillian B.
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Name (Latin)
Horace, Lillian B.
Other forms of name
Jones Horace, Lillian
Date of birth
1880-04-29
Date of death
1965-08-01
Other associated place
Texas
Field of activity
Publishers and publishing
Writing
Occupation
Authors
Educators
Novelists
Publishers and publishing
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Lillian Bertha Jones
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- "Crowned with glory ..." c1978:t.p. (Lillian B. Horace)
- Recovering Five generations hence, 2013:t.p. (Lillian Jones Horace) p. facing t.p. verso (Lillian Bertha Jones Horace) p. vii (Lillian B. Horace; Lillian B. Jones Horace)
- National Women's History Project website, July 17, 2013 :April birthdays (April 29, 1880 (1965): Lillian Bertha Jones Horace, pioneering educator and writer, Texas's earliest known African American woman novelist, one of only two known black southern women novelists of the early to mid twentieth century (Zora Neale Hurston is the other); one of only two black women nationally to own a publishing company before 1920, and the only black woman nationally to author a utopian novel before 1950. )
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Lillian B. Horace
Frank Leffler, Public domain
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Frank Leffler, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Lillian Bertha Jones Horace (née Amstead; April 29, 1880 – August 1, 1965) was an African American author, educator, and librarian from Fort Worth, Texas, best known for her novels Five Generations Hence (1916), Crowned with Glory and Honor, and Angie Brown. These are the earliest novels on record written by an African-American woman from Texas. Horace married and divorced twice, and continued to teach, travel and write throughout her life. At the time of her retirement, she had been an educator for over thirty years.
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