ILLUSTRATIONS

2.1Ary Scheffer, The Temptation of Christ, 1854

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4.1Manuscript page of “Rena” (early draft of The House Behind the Cedars)

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5.1Edward Bulwer Lytton in the table of contents of The Colored American, March 1904

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6.1Dual epigraphs to chapter 1 of The Souls of Black Folk

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6.2“Recent Poetry” review in The Dial, showing two poems used as epigraphs in Souls, May 1, 1902

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6.3W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Vision of Phillis the Blessed,” Fisk News, May 1941

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6.4Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, 1871–78

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6.5Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, 1773

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