Harriet wilson biography
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Harriet E. Wilson
African-American novelist (–)
For the Regency courtesan, see Harriette Wilson.
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, &#; June 28, ) was an African-Americannovelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.
Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known. The novel was discovered in by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who documented it as the first African American novel published in the United States.
Born a free person of color (free Negro) in New Hampshire, Wilson was orphaned when young and bound until the age of 18 as an indentured servant. She struggled to make a living after that, marrying twice. Her only son George died at the age of seven in the poor house, where she had placed him while trying to survive as a widow. She wrote one novel. Wilson later was associated with the Spiritualist church, was paid on the public lecture cir
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In , Harriet Wilson, a mulatto woman from New Hampshire, published a novel with the stated hope of earning sufficient money simply to survive. Instead, her novel Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black, became a powerful and controversial narrative that continues to touch and unsettle readers around the world. Her novel Our Nig was published in and rediscovered in bygd professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Generally accepted as an autobiographical novel, Wilson’s innovative work integrates two genres of the American literary tradition- the Sentimental Novel and the 19th century Slave Narrative- and stands today as the first known novel published bygd a black woman in English and the earliest novel published in the United States by an African American.
Harriet E. "Hattie" Adams efternamn was born in Milford, New Hampshire, the daughter of Joshua Green, an African-American "hooper of barrels", and Margaret Ann (or Adams) Smith, a washerwoman of Irish ancestry. Her
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Harriette Wilson
English courtesan and writer
For the sociologist and child poverty campaigner, see Harriett C. Wilson.
Harriette Wilson (2 February – 10 March ) was an English courtesan and writer. The author of The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself (), she was a famed Regency era courtesan who became the mistress of the Earl of Craven at the age of Later in her career, she went on to have formal relationship arrangements with the Duke of Wellington and other prominent people.
Early life
[edit]Harriette Dubouchet's birth at 2 Carrington Street, in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London, was recorded in the parish register of St George, Hanover Square. Her father kept a small shop with his wife, Amelia, née Cook. Her father is said to have assumed the surname of Wilson about [1][2]
One of the fifteen children of Swiss John James Dubouchet (or De Bouchet), Wilson was one of four sisters in the family who pursued careers as courtesans. He