The Afro-American press and its editors . rious,—educational, moral, social, racial, and purelyliterary. Among her most popular productions are probablythe following: A series of descriptive papers written to TheIndustrial Herald, of Richmond, during a six-weeks stay inNew York and Boston, in the summer of 1883; PaulsTrade and the Use he Made of it, read before the BaptistSunday-school Union of Washington, D. C, and afterwardspublished in Tlie Christian Recorder; Notes to Girls, aseries of letters in The Peoples Advocate; Higher Educationfor Women, an oration before the Young Ladies LiterarySo
The Afro-American press and its editors . rious,—educational, moral, social, racial, and purelyliterary. Among her most popular productions are probablythe following: A series of descriptive papers written to TheIndustrial Herald, of Richmond, during a six-weeks stay inNew York and Boston, in the summer of 1883; PaulsTrade and the Use he Made of it, read before the BaptistSunday-school Union of Washington, D. C, and afterwardspublished in Tlie Christian Recorder; Notes to Girls, aseries of letters in The Peoples Advocate; Higher Educationfor Women, an oration before the Young Ladies LiterarySociety of Howard University, at their public meeting in1885, and subsequently printed in The Peoples Advocate;The Hero of Harpers Ferry, delivered at the juniorexhibition of the class of 1886 of Howard University, ofwhich she was a member; a reply in Tlie New York Freemanto Annie Porter, who had published in The Independent avigorous onslaught against the negroes; The Remedy forWar,—her graduating oration, since given to the public in. MRS. JOSEPHINE TUKPIN WASHINGTON 395 396 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. The A. M. E. Church Review; and Teaching as a Profession,published in the October number of The Review. continues to write, and productions from her penare welcomed alike by publishers and the public. Miss Alice E. McEwen, Associate Editor Baptist Leader. On Hardings street, in the city of Nashville, July 29,1870, was born the above-named young lady, whose workin the literary sphere has been marked with that successwhich would attend many a persons life whose aim is light,and whose dependence is God. Of Christian parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. N. McEwen, shegrew up a God-fearing child, receiving a religious as well asan intellectual training. She acquired the rudiments of aneducation in the Nashville public schools, and subsequentlyattended Fisk University, (1881) and, after the death of hermother, Roger Williams University, (1884.) She did not,however, finish the pres
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