Hazel

“I’ll be a real queen, won’t I?”

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About this edition

When a rainy Boston Saturday gives way to a long illness, little Hazel Tyler is sent south to a grandmother she has never met: to red clay and cotton fields, to spirituals and Bible stories, to the wide, strange country world. A city child among the pines, she learns the worth of small kindnesses and the width of the world she is only beginning to enter.

Mary White Ovington, settlement worker, suffragist and a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., wrote Hazel in 1913, among the first novels to give Black children a heroine of their own: devout, tender, quick to wonder, and wholly herself.

A quietly groundbreaking story of family, belonging and growing up, presented with a fresh, readable design behind an original painting.

Details

• Mary White Ovington (1865–1951)
• The complete 1913 novel
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback, 6 × 9, 96 pages