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Excerpt from Delilah of Harlem: A Story of the New York City of to-Day "No, old boy! The whole thing is a bore! I am tired of New York!" cried Ralph Burnham, carefully selecting a cigar from the box of Excepcionales. In a cosey private room of the Brunswick, two men, old college chums, were seated at a table covered with the debris of a bachelor dinner. It was the genial summer time of 1889. The flickering lights on the avenue lit up gay groups hurrying to cafe and theatre. Burnham, tall, dark, and thirty-four, was the type of your uneasy New Yorker, who chafes daily at the sameness of life in the one spot on earth dear above all others. Walter Maxwell, critic, author, and globe trotter, (blonde and thirty-two, ) leaned back in his chair, curiously eying Burnham. Slowly knocking the ash from his cigarette, he pushed Burnham a petit verre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century. In historical context, with special emphasis on matters of race and gender, are the words of luminaries like Zora Neale Hurston and Georgia Douglas Johnson as well as rare, previously unpublished writings by figures like Angelina Weld Grimké, Elise Johnson McDougald, and Regina Andrews, all culled from archives and arcane magazines. Editors Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph arrange their selections to reveal not just the little-suspected extent of black women's writing, but its prodigious existence beyond the cultural confines of New York City. Harlem's Glory also shows how literary creativity often coexisted with social activism in the works of African-American women. This volume is full of surprises about the power and diversity of the writers and genres. The depth, the wit, and the reach of the selections are astonishing. With its wealth of discoveries and rediscoveries, and its new slant on the familiar, all elegantly presented and deftly edited, the book will compel a reassessment of writing by African-American women and its place in twentieth-century American literary and historical culture.