Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length ... While writing the book, Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent, producing a work that was equal parts biographical accuracy and bold ...

Jacobs wrote the book under a pseudonym Linda Brent, in 1860 ... publishing the biography Harriet Jacobs, A Life in 2004. In 2006, Lanier, director of North Carolina Historic Sites, learned ...

Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet ... Linda Brent. After the publication of her book, Jacobs ...

"Harriet Jacobs: A Life," by Jean Fagan Yellin ... Jacobs changed all the names in the book and published it under the pseudonym Linda Brent to protect relatives still held in slavery in Edenton ...

Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton ... To protect herself and her family, she used the pseudonym of Linda Brent and renamed the real people in her narrative. Not only did she write ...

When North Carolina slave Harriet Jacobs penned those words in "Incidents ... which at the time was published under the pseudonym Linda Brent. She was fascinated. But it wasn't until the feminist ...

As she later documented under the pseudonym Linda Brent in her 1861 book “Incidents ... then asking us to whisper “Harriet Jacobs” and “Seven years.” Small, uncomfortable, and visceral ...