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The Novel That Sold 1,000 Copies a Week in 1903

Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.

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In Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel, Slavery Is Hell and Dante Is Our Guide

LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…

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How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature

Jesmyn Ward gestured with her eyes and a tilt of her face, hands on the wheel. “This crazy colored house…

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