Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

by Lois Brown

Book Overview

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614561
• ISBN13: 9781469614564
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"