Reading Scarlet Sister Mary | Alexandria
Read Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin. Winning the 1929 Pulitzer Prize while exposing the taboo of female sexual autonomy, Scarlet Sister Mary boldly chronicles a Black woman's defiant embrace of passion and motherhood outside marriage. Peterkin's revolutionary portrayal upends Victorian morality, revealing how one woman's quest for authentic living challenges social constraints that still resonate today.