Dr. Brigitte Fielder
@brigfield.bsky.social
Prof. of African American literature before 1900ish, Black children’s lit. 1773-now, & other things (neverending)19th Century. Co-editor, J19. Co-founder, TaughtByLiterature.org. I like birds & trains. Also cats. Mon français est nul. It’s “bridge-it.”
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If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...
Help expand the Wheatley Census – Wheatley Census Blog
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November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...
Reposted by Dr. Brigitte Fielder
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
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November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
I’m always grateful to be able to think and write about Frances Harper.
September will mark the 200th anniversary of author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the sixth of six essays in the exciting forum on Harper in the current issue of Legacy, @brigfield.bsky.social’s breathtaking & visionary “Generational Harper.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
May 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m always grateful to be able to think and write about Frances Harper.
Every month can be Black History Month if we just choose to celebrate Black history all year round!
Yall better enjoy the last black history month in a few days….next year it’s just going to be February.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Every month can be Black History Month if we just choose to celebrate Black history all year round!