Horace, Lillian Jones
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1880-1965) US teacher and author whose Five Generations Hence (1916) as Mrs Lillian B Jones is the first Utopia published by a Black woman in America. Its protagonist, devastated by an initial true vision of the conditions of life for Blacks in contemporary America, has a second vision of life five generations hence in Africa, of a country where all are equal. She then dedicates herself to bringing this vision about. [JC]
Lillian Bertha Jones Horace
born Jefferson, Texas: 29 April 1880
died Fort Worth, Texas: 6 August 1965
works
- Five Generations Hence (Fort Worth, Texas: Dotson-Jones Printing Company, 1916) as Mrs Lillian B Jones [hb/]
about the author
- Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, editor. Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace (Texas A and M University Press, 2013) [nonfiction: anthology: includes the text of Five Generations Hence plus various essays about the author and her work: hb/]
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