Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, known as the “Bronze Muse,” died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A prolific writer, lecturer, and activist, Harper published over a dozen books, including Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854), Moses: A Story of the Nile (1869), and Sketches of Southern Life (1872). She was one of the most prominent female poets of the 19th century and a powerful voice in both the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements.
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