Webb, Frank J. | Arthur P. Davis (essay date September 1969)
Arthur P. Davis (essay date September 1969)
SOURCE: Davis, Arthur P. “The Garies and Their Friends: A Neglected Pioneer Novel.”1 CLA Journal 13, no. 1 (September 1969): 27-34.
[In the following essay, Davis emphasizes the significance of Webb's The Garies and Their Friends while also elaborating on its shortcomings and the reasons for its neglect.]
Most students of Negro American literature know The Garies and Their Friends, by Frank J. Webb, only from what they have read in Loggins, Bone, and Gloster; and there is not much to be found in these works. Loggins gives the book two and one-half pages; Bone, one; and Gloster, a half page.2 Moreover, few scholars have been able to read the novel because it is a rare book. There is a copy at Howard University, another at the British Museum, but none in the Library of Congress. There must be at least a few others extant, but obviously not many. And...
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