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A hairdresser's experience in high life

Potter, Eliza (Author). Santamarina, Xiomara. (Added Author).

Summary: Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature, the 1859 autobiography of Eliza Potter, a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women. Xiomara Santamarina provides an insightful introduction to this edition that includes newly discovered information about Potter, discusses the author's strong satirical voice and proud working-class status, and places the narrative in the context of 19th-century literature and history.

Record details

ISBN: 0807859826
ISBN: 0807833355
ISBN: 9780807859827
ISBN: 9780807833353
ISBN: 1469605317
ISBN: 9781469605319
ISBN: 080789866X
ISBN: 9780807898666
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxv, 214 pages)
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; INTRODUCTION; A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life; THE AUTHOR'S APPEAL; 1. My Debut; 2. England; 3. America; 4. Saratoga; 5. Leaving Saratoga -- Burning of the Baggage Car -- Visit to New York; 6. Newport -- The Maid's Story; 7. Minnie; 8. Natchez -- New Orleans; 9. Cincinnati; APPENDIX A: Biographical Information on Eliza Potter (1820?-1893); APPENDIX B: Newspaper Reviews of A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life; Notes.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.