Talk:Harriet E. Wilson

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What does "Hooper of Barrels" Mean?[edit]

Please answer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeskArt (talk • contribs) 19:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: one who places iron (or metal) hoops around barrel staves and draws them together in order to construct a barrel or cask. Rhpitts1055 (talk) 19:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC) [reply]

First African American to write a novel[edit]

I believe the post is in error about Harriet Wilson being the first African American to write a novel. I don't have something to cite, but we've been learning about this in my African American Literature class, and my professor said that the first book by an African American is Clotel by William Wells Brown (written in 1853). Clotel is a fictional story based on one of Thomas Jefferson's daughters by Sally Hemmings. There is also a debate as to whether or not a manuscript entitled The Bondwoman's Tale by Hanna Crafts recently discovered was written before that, but there is no solid evidence that it was. It was also never published which means it was definitely not the first novel published by an African American. Also, another book was written by an African American after Clotel but before Our Nig entitled The Garies and Their Friends by Frank Webb (in 1857). Harriet Wilson is, however, still the first female African American to write a novel. Avatarofpenguin 03:48, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

boston globe, feb 15, 2009[edit]

what about her apparent entrepreneurship, selling hair-care products and doing quite well with it, as revealed in the "ideas & books" section of the boston sunday globe, feb 15, 2009?

seems like a LOT of new material can be added to the biography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.18.100 (talk) 12:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Finishing the Biography section[edit]

Can someone finish this section? It's literally stopped in the middle of a sentence. Wouldn't want the bots to get a hold of it and delete the whole sentence...Peacekeepurwar (talk) 18:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Photograph[edit]

The photograph in the infobox cannot be her. If she was born in 1825, she would be about 70 years old when that photo was taken. Her clothes are c. 1895. Unless you think she is 70 in that photograph, it has been misattributed over and over again. I think it should be removed. Costumista (talk) 04:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. The site that that image comes from is https://aaregistry.org/story/author-harriet-wilson-born/ and no information is given there about the source of the photograph. I agree that we have rather limited reason to believe this photograph is actually Harriet Wilson, so I'd be okay with its removal. Would be nice to email aaregistry and ask them about the course of their image. Cheers! DoctorMatt (talk) 00:42, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I just emailed aaregistry about this. DoctorMatt (talk) 01:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]