This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at a Massachusetts resort - a vacation that ultimately leads to their struggle for salvation and their commitment to Christian service. Combining conventions from spritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, the book sets off on an evangelical mission aimed at showing readers how they should live.
Reviews
In Four Girls at Cottage City Kelley combines conventions from spiritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel...her aim...was to show readers how they should live....It is...fruitful to see Kelley as one precursor of the spiritual feminism that is currently resonating throughout contemporary Afro-American women's fiction... * Deborah E. McDowell, in her Introduction *



Book Information
ISBN 9780195052428
Author Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins
Format Hardback
Page Count 430
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 386g
Dimensions(mm) 164mm * 175mm * 31mm