Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen

Biography

Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen (March 3, 1863 – July 7, 1904) was an African-American writer, temperance activist, and professor of music at Clark University in Atlanta in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Twentieth Century Negro Literature (1902) noted that "she is regarded as one of the foremost and best cultured women of her race." She was a life member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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