Glorious (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the characters of Glorious Monday, January 7, 2013.

• Edited a character: MadelineMattie Mae Dawkins: She tried to move away from segregation by moving into Harlem. What a stretch.
• Edited a character: ShannonShannon Everson: A small part in a new place
• Edited a character: Meredith MacDougal Tomas: Talk about evil! Totally unfair with Easter
• Edited a character: AliceAlice Everson: OK. I'm not sure I remember her.
• Edited a character: MavisMavis Hawkins: escapes my memory
• Edited a character: EduardoEduardo Tomas
• Edited a character: LumpkinLumpkin Banks
• Edited a character: MaryMary Turner
• Edited a character: W. L. George
• Edited a character: CharlieCharlie Youngblood
• Edited a character: AlfredAlfred Harcourt
• Edited a character: KendrickKendrick Lawrence
• Edited a character: Mama Rain: A vaudeville dancer in a traveling circus that befriends Easter and also ends up in Harlen
• Edited a character: DoddDodd Everson
• Edited a character: HenryHenry Coward
• Edited a character: OliviaOlivia Comolli
• Edited a character: ZeldaZelda Marie Bartlett
• Edited a character: WaldoWaldo Frank
• Edited a character: JoseyJoseph Gill
• Edited a character: Mrs. OlgaOlga Fields
• Edited a character: John Bartlett Jr.
• Added a character: James Wormley Jones
• Added a character: John Bartlett Sr.
• Added a character: Emma Goodkind
• Added a character: Oren Scotten
• Added a character: Dolly
• Added a character: A'Lelia
• Added a character: Lawton Fields
• Added a character: Roi Ottley
• Added a character: Benjamin Caruthers
• Added a character: Abigail Sessions
• Added a character: Ota Benga
• Added a character: William E. Harmon
• Added a character: Lollie Smith
• Added a character: Junior
• Added a character: Georgia
• Added a character: Bishop Cantor
• Added a character: James Jeffries
• Added a character: Gladys Bentley
• Added a character: Cleavus
• Added a character: Maude Alice Burke
• Added a character: Mr. Harmon
• Added a character: Getty Wisdom
• Added a character: Zora Neale Hurston
• Added a character: Carl Van Vechten
• Added a character: Odell
• Added a character: Brander Matthews
• Added a character: Vaughn
• Added a character: Langston Hughes
• Added a character: Merry
• Added a character: Claude McKay
• Added a character: Valerie Cumberbatch

Reads4Pleasure edited the summary of Glorious Wednesday, December 19, 2012.

• From the dirt roads of Waycross, Georgia to the busy streets of Harlem, Bernice McFadden once again delivers perfection in her latest novel, Glorious. With actual historical events playing in the background, we are introduced to Easter Bartlett and her family.

  The historic "Fight of the Century" between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries sets in motion a series of events that eventually push Easter out of Georgia and eventually land her in Harlem. Much mention is made of Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association. A story set in Harlem at such a time would be incomplete with referencing the Harlem Renaissance and Ms. McFadden deftly weaves in noted members of the Renaissance, including A'lelia Walker*, daughter of Madame CJ Walker and a patron of the arts, and Langston Hughes. Others such as Claude McKay and Carl Van Vechten are also mentioned.

  With writing as rich and vivid as only she can do it, Ms. McFadden draws you into the life of Easter Bartlett and doesn't release you easily. Though their stories are not the same, I couldn't help but to compare Easter Barlett to Wallace Thurman's Emma Lou Brown from The Blacker the Berry, with both women seeking refuge in Harlem. I found myself yearning to read this while at the same time putting it down in order to savor it and prolong the inevitable end. While I usually give away books that I've already read, this is one that will have to stay in my library.

Reads4Pleasure edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Glorious Wednesday, December 19, 2012.

• Added: Fans of J California Cooper will love this.

Minnie Estelle Miller edited the characters of Glorious Sunday, May 27, 2012.

• Edited the description of Mavis: escapes my memory

Minnie Estelle Miller edited the characters of Glorious Sunday, May 27, 2012.

• Edited the description of Alice: OK. I'm not sure I remember her.

Minnie Estelle Miller edited the characters of Glorious Sunday, May 27, 2012.

• Edited the description of Meredith Tomas: Talk about evil! Totally unfair with Easter

Minnie Estelle Miller edited the characters of Glorious Sunday, May 27, 2012.

• Edited the description of Shannon: A small part in a new place

Minnie Estelle Miller edited the characters of Glorious Sunday, May 27, 2012.

• Edited the description of Madeline: She tried to move away from segregation by moving into Harlem. What a stretch.

Shelfari edited the settings of Glorious Sunday, October 9, 2011.

• Added a setting: Harlem
• Added a setting: Waycross
• Added a setting: New York
• Added a setting: Easter
• Added a setting: Africa
• Added a setting: Georgia
• Added a setting: America
• Added a setting: Paris
• Added a setting: Kentucky
• Added a setting: Elberton
• Added a setting: Louisville
• Added a setting: Panama
• Added a setting: Valdosta

Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of Glorious Sunday, October 9, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “I write to breathe life back into memory to remind African Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a 'root,' and for me the 'fierce winds' include the marginalization--the downright segregation--of literature written by people of color.”Bernice L. Mcfadden
• Added a quotation: “Legacies are delicate things. They must be tended to as one would tend an orchid so that it will continue to flourish and provide beautiful blooms. The legacy of African-American literature has been neglected, the works of brilliant writers both published and aspiring--ignored. But I believe that the tides are about to change.”Bernice L. Mcfadden