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Pauline Hopkins
Feminists have long known that it’s all connected. The stories, the families, the country, the River. In this anthology, poets and short story writers create worlds with words. This book…
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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 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…
Jill Bergman
Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the…
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2019 Reprint of Edition First Serialized in Colored American Magazine From November 1902 thru January 1903. Hopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn't care less…
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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…
Hanna Wallinger
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…
John Cullen Gruesser
Explores the literary and journalistic career of Hopkins, a turn-of-the-century African American writer.
Lois Brown
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
Pauline Hopkins,Minister Faust
Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman’s life through mesmerism…
Pauline Bradford Hopkins
Mademoiselle de Berny - A Story of Valley Forge is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
Ye Lyttle Salem Maide - A story of witchcraft is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era…
First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer…
The Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching…
Alisha Knight
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for Colored American Magazine, she published four novels, at least…
Mysticism, horror, and racial identity merge fluidly in this thrilling tale of love, obsession, and power (Publishers Weekly) written by one of the lesser-known literary figures of the much-lauded Harlem…
Kelli V. Randall
American Realist Fictions of Marriage intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode of narration for fictive constructions of marriage and…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Originally published as a serial in 1902-1903 in The Colored American Magazine, published by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Company in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Pauline Bradford MacKie Hopkins
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: L.C. Page
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Diana Hopkins,Pauline Cullen
All the grammar you need for IELTS success!
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
A lost worlds thriller written in 1902 by a pioneering black writer of black fiction. The story of Reuel is fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the…
Rhone Fraser
In the 1905 letter to William Monroe Trotter, Pauline Hopkins wrote that she lost the editorship of the Colored American Magazine because she refused partisan lines and pursued an independent…
