The Gilded Years: A Novel
by:
Karin Tanabe (author)
Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781501110467
ASIN: B0176M3TZW
Publish date: 2016-06-07
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
The true story in fictional form of Anita Hemmings, a black woman who graduated from Vassar in 1897, a full half century before Vassar officially allowed black women to attend. While this is mostly just an interesting story about the Gilded Age, women's education and race, it does best when race is ...