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Pauline E Hopkins
Before Wakanda, there was Telassar.
Before Octavia Butler, NK Jemison, and Nisi Shawl, there was Pauline E. Hopkins.
When Reuel Briggs, a man hiding his African American identity, discovers that…
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Pauline E. Hopkins
Sappho Clark - beautiful, mysterious, Southern - arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination…
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The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins (2021) compiles several iconic works of fiction by a pioneering figure in American literature. Contending Forces was Hopkins’ first major publication as a leading African…
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Virtually unknown for the better part of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the…
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The Colored American Magazine, first published in 1900, was a pioneering forum for black literary talent. Pauline Hopkins was not only a prolific contributor, but one of its powerful editorial…
The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.
Talma Gordon (1900) is a short story by Pauline E. Hopkins. Recognized as the first African American mystery story, Talma Gordon was originally published in the October 1900 edition of…
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (19902-1903) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America’s…
Of One Blood (1902-1903) is a novel by Pauline E. Hopkins. Recognized as one of the earliest works of science fiction by an African American writer, Of One Blood was…
The story of the wife of a rich, whote lamdowner who hides a dark secret she is of black origin.
Contending Forces (1900) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company in Boston, Contending Forces is a groundbreaking novel that…
