Description
First published in Boston in 1898, Four Girls at Cottage City tells the story of four carefree, young women (all physically indistinguishable from white women) who, while vacationing at a Massachusetts resort, embark on a struggle for salvation and commit themselves to Christian service. Combining conventions of spiritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, Emma Kelley-Hawkins presents a powerful spritual message alongside a belief in the strength of matrifocal communities. Four Girls at Cottage City serves as a precursor to the spiritual feminism that resonates throughout African-American women's fiction today.
