Description: A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief description: Cynthia Lee Patterson is associate professor of English at University of South Florida. She is author of Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s, published by University Press of Mississippi, and her work has appeared in such publications as American Periodicals and The Journal of African American History.
Review Quotes: Cynthia Lee Patterson has achieved a significant recovery effort by revealing the voices of numerous Black women writers who published in the A.M.E. Church Review. The author takes seriously these women's varied contributions, and this volume makes a meaningful contribution to our understanding of Black women's history, AME Church history, and the history of Black periodicals.--Christina Dickerson-Cousin, author of Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916