Sister Josepha & Other Tales

Sister Josepha is a popular tale by Alice Dunbar Nelson which tells the story of a woman caught between her will to live freely but as a Nun or, to live grudgingly as somebody's wife. e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of Alice Dunbar Nelson's famous short stories that made her an important African-American writer of her day. Content: Sister Josepha The Goodness of Saint Rocque Tony's Wife The Fisherman of Pass Christian M'sieu Fortier's Violin By The Bayou St. John When the Bayou Overflows Mr. Baptiste A Carnival Jangle Little Miss Sophie The Praline Woman Odalie La Juanita Titee

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; she then married physician Henry A. Callis; and married, lastly, to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist. She achieved prominence as a poet, author of short stories and dramas, newspaper columnist, and editor of two anthologies.