Ward
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Arts
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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Arts
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, “Let Us Descend,” finishes her morning tasks — laundry and dusting in her plantation’s manor home — she lingers outside a doorway. Inside ...
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Magazine
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 right here? That’s my grandmother’s house. That’s the house I grew up in. And her sister lives there” — she pointed — “and then that little blue ...