True Love -

After the Rediscovery of a 19th-century Novel, a View of Black Female Writers is Transformed – KOLUMN

May 27, 2016June 1, 2016Art, History ...

Two years ago, I was in the United Kingdom working on a follow-up project for my books “Black London” and “Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.” While looking through old British newspapers, I was astonished to read an 1893 announcement in The Daily Telegraph proclaiming Sarah E. Farro to be “the first negro novelist” with the publication of her novel “True Love.”