Virginia Houston

Virginia Houston was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Her poetry often used overtly erotic images.[2] One of her poems, Class Room, was included in the first edition of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (1989), edited by Maureen Honey, which was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to notice women poets of the Harlem Renaissance.[3][4] She was the model for the character Clara in Ruth Seid's book The Changelings.[5][6] She was a friend of Seid throughout her life and helped her write The Changelings by confirming the truth of the black characters in it.[5][6] She also worked as a social worker.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Maureen Honey (2006). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Rutgers University Press. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-0-8135-3886-0.
  2. ↑ Lynn Dumenil (30 June 1995). The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-1-4299-2400-9.
  3. ↑ "Shadowed Dreams - Rutgers University Press".
  4. ↑ Maureen Honey (1989). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1420-8.
  5. 1 2 3 Tyler T. Schmidt (11 September 2013). Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 247–. ISBN 978-1-62846-831-1.
  6. 1 2 Adam Meyer (2002). Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 82–. ISBN 978-0-8108-4218-2.
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