Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. J
Nathaniel Parker Willis
…in 1852 to force her back into slavery, Cornelia Willis bought her freedom for $300. While working for the Willis family at Idlewild, Jacobs wrote her autobiography, published in 1861. Her biographer, Jean Fagan Yellin, comments on the irony of the situation: "Idlewild had been conceived as a famous writer's retreat…
Frontispiece of the first edition
Harriet Jacobs, 1894
An 1862 pirated British edition, with an image on the cover of Harriet Jacobs hiding in the attic as a slave catcher confronts her grandmother.