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January 1, 2025
Bundles (On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker) is Walker's biographer and great-great-granddaughter. She writes a biography of Walker's daughter, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance and the United States' first high-profile Black heiress. Prepub Alert.
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March 15, 2025
The eventful life of a celebrity heiress. Bundles, a former network television executive and producer, draws on family archives to create a lively portrait of her great-grandmother, A'Lelia Walker (1885-1931), a tireless champion of Black artists, writers, and musicians. The only child of millionaire beauty entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, the subject of Bundles' earlier biography, Lelia (she added A' to her name in 1923) became an influential figure of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent socialite, swathed in furs and dressed in French couture, who hosted glittering parties in her Harlem townhouse and villa on the Hudson. Her life began in hardship: Her mother had been a St. Louis laundress and a widow when she married a man who turned out to be abusive. She escaped, with Lelia, to Denver, married C. J. Walker, and reinvented herself as a savvy, successful businesswoman, selling products particularly suited to Black people's needs. Lelia's relationship with her mother was tense and sometimes acrimonious, and Madam could be critical of Lelia's handling of her business responsibilities, social life, and choice of suitors. In rebellion, Lelia eloped in 1909 with a man who would, as her mother predicted, betray her. Her second marriage, to philandering physician Wiley Wilson, was no better; a third marriage also ended in divorce. Encouraged by her mother, Lelia adopted Mae Bryant, a fatherless girl who served as a hair model and assistant for the company. While Mae at first considered the adoption a great privilege, Lelia proved as domineering as Madam had been, leaving Mae--Bundles' biological grandmother--feeling "indebted and cornered." Lelia could be difficult, to be sure, but Bundles captures her energy, her drive, and her commitment to the creative community that she nourished. An engaging biography of a formidable woman.
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June 1, 2025
In her latest work of biography, Bundles (On Her Own Ground) turns her attention to A'Lelia Walker, Bundles' great-grandmother and heiress to Madam C.J. Walker's fortune. Born into poverty during the Reconstruction era, A'Lelia Walker ascended to the upper echelon of Black life via her mother's unparalleled business acumen. Together, the two women built a beauty empire during a period of profound social change and racial oppression. With 1920s Harlem as a backdrop, the mother-daughter duo navigated the pains and successes of a family business, becoming community leaders in the process. Bundles' voice is brisk and curious, nimbly leading readers through the relationships and historical currents that created the Harlem Renaissance. Her personal connection to the Walkers pays off via an expansive number of primary sources. In addition to being useful for scholars of the time period, it makes for an engrossing history as readers are invited to luxuriate in the details of Walker's life.
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