This collection includes a novella, two short stories, and six essays. The title story, the first novel written by an African American in the West, takes place in Virginia and addresses adultery and divorce, subjects considered radical and risque at that time. Equally provocative are the "Other Sketches".
Author: Thomas Detter · Original publisher: University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, 1996) (later/standard edition)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1871; full text freely available at Internet Archive. The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `3912-nellie-brown-or-the-jealous-wife.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
