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Author Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944

Title The collected works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks / compiled and edited by Bernice F. Guillaume.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  818 B978C    Check Shelf
Description xxxv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers
Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Published works. Poems. Original poems -- A picture -- Driftwood (facsimile of 1914 edition) -- On the Long Island Indian. Play, essays. Memories of Calvary : an Easter sketch -- Undercurrents of social life -- Echoes from the cabin song -- Essay on John Greene.
Unpublished works. Poems. Symbols -- To the memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Challenge -- Vision -- Bondage : a tribute to colored motherhood -- Filled with you -- Harlem -- Love's lament -- Doggerel. Marie buries a little bird ; Jimmy (Italian friend) -- Catawba -- The keepers of the house -- The temple glorious -- Trails -- Whither? -- Echoes -- Art? -- Flight -- Fruition -- Honey-sweet -- Moonlight -- Oasis (Friendship) -- Scars -- Shadows : dedicated to Miss Marian Anderson -- An "R.N.'s soliloquy -- Ashes of incense -- Just God and I -- Barthe -- Lee -- Thrills -- Doing our bit : Nov. 4, 1942 -- "Keep on, keeping on" : a tribute.
Unpublished works. Plays, vignettes, essays, sketches. The awakening : a prophecy -- Pageant : the march of time : a prophesy -- Indian trails; or, Trail of the Montauk -- The departure of Naomi and Ruth -- Glamour vs. beauty -- A jolly Thanksgiving -- Looking out of the window : a dramatic sketch -- Making Christ real : a Vacation Bible School play -- The star of Bethlehem -- A Shantytown scandal -- Greenwich Village highlights -- New Year musings -- Thanksgiving reverie -- Black communism -- What about our loyal colored Americans?
Aunt Viney's sketches. Aunt Viney names Miss Ollie's gift-shop, and talks on art -- Aunt Viney starts for Atlantic City, and ends up at Coney Island -- Aunt Viney tells of her visit to the beauty shop, and also announces her engagement to Mose Hardup -- Aunt Viney talks on Harlem society, and the depression -- Aunt Viney talks on negro spirituals -- Aunt Viney declares that in these days, even the church is a racket -- Aunt Viney tells of an interesting Sunday in Harlem.
Unpublished works. Memoirs. The lure of the distances (c. 1935-1944).
Subject African Americans -- Literary collections.
Indexed Term English poetry
United States
Added Author Guillaume, Bernice F.
Added Title Works. 1991.
ISBN 0195061969
9780195061963
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