The Colour Purple Book
Object
Book
Object number
2025.20
Physical Description
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker. The cover depicts an illustration of a silhouette of a woman sitting on a rocking chair, reading a letter, in front of a window with the sun in the background. The cover is primarily purple and orange. The Women's Press Fiction logo is on the bottom right corner.
Object history
The Colour Purple is a 1982 novel by Alice Walker. The book is set in the early 1900s, Georgia, United States, and follows Celie, a young Black girl born into poverty and segregation.
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983 making Walker the first Black woman to win for fiction. Despite great critical acclaim, the book has been banned various times in the United States for sexual explicitness, language, violence, and homosexuality.
This edition was published by The Women's Press, Ltd. 124 Shoreditch High Street, London E1
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983 making Walker the first Black woman to win for fiction. Despite great critical acclaim, the book has been banned various times in the United States for sexual explicitness, language, violence, and homosexuality.
This edition was published by The Women's Press, Ltd. 124 Shoreditch High Street, London E1
Associated Organisation
The Women's Press (Publisher)
Associated Person
Walker, Alice (Created by)
Material
Paper
Dimension
Height: 260mm
Width: 134mm
Depth: 28mm
Width: 134mm
Depth: 28mm
On display?
No
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The Colour Purple
Alice Walker
The Women's Press Fiction
The Colour Purple
Alice Walker
The Women's Press Fiction
