Julia C. Collins

Julia C. Collins
Julia C. Collins
Born	c. 1842
Died	November 25, 1865 (aged 22–23); Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Genre	Fiction, essay
Notable works	Curse of Caste, or the Slave Bride
Spouse	Stephen C. Collins (also known as Simon C. Collins)
Children	Annie C. Collins (Mrs. John L. Caution)

Julia C. Collins (c. 1842 – November 25, 1865), was an African American schoolteacher in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who in 1864 and 1865 contributed essays and other writings to The Christian Recorder, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Starting in January 1865, her novel, The Curse of Caste, or the Slave Bride,^[1] was serialized in the pages of the Christian Recorder. The novel remains unfinished due to Collins' death from Tuberculosis in November 1865.

In 2006, William L. Andrews of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mitch Kachun of Western Michigan University collected Collins' writings and her unfinished novel and published them, with commentary and notes, through Oxford University Press.^[2]

^ Collins, Julia C. (2006). The Curse of Caste. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530159-5 – via Internet Archive.
^ Andrews, William L., and Mitch Kachun (editors). The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), ISBN 978-0-19-530159-5.