SOURCE: "Lydia Maria Child and the Endings to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," in American Literature, Vol. 64, No. 2, June, 1992, pp. 255-72
In the essay that follows, Mills studies the influence of Lydia Maria Child (abolitionist and editor of Incidents) on Jacobs's writing and on the book's structure and content.
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