Jessie Redmon Fauset: References & Edit History
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Carolyn Wedin Sylvander, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer (1981), is a detailed overview of Fauset’s life and works. Studies with a narrower focus include Abby Arthur Johnson, “Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance,” Phylon, 39(2):143–153 (2nd Quarter 1978); Deborah E. McDowell, “The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset,” in Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers (eds.), Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (1985), pp. 86–104; Cheryl A. Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (1995); Jacquelyn Y. McLendon, The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen (1995); and Sharon L. Jones, Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (2002).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Apr 26, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Jan 29, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Jan 26, 2023 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. | Jun 05, 2017 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Nov 26, 2014 | ||
| Added "Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance," by Abby Arthur Johnson, to the bibliography. |
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Nov 26, 2014 | |
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. | Feb 12, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Biography of Jessie R. Fauset. | Feb 12, 2014 | ||
| Added new Web site: Voices from the Gaps - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. | Aug 03, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 17, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |