Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution by Lois Brown

By Lois Brown

Born into an informed loose black relations in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) used to be a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public highbrow, most sensible recognized for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro lifestyles North and South. during this severe biography, Lois Brown files for the 1st time Hopkins's early relatives lifestyles and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave exchange, and twentieth-century race activism within the North.

Brown comprises designated descriptions of Hopkins's earliest recognized performances as a singer and actress; textual research of her significant and minor literary works; information regarding her such a lot influential mentors, colleagues, affiliations; and information of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which finally ended in her specialist loss of life as a journalist.

Richly grounded in archival assets, Brown's paintings bargains a definitive examine that clarifies a couple of inconsistencies in previous writing approximately Hopkins. Brown re-creates the lifetime of a extraordinary girl within the context of her instances, revealing Hopkins because the descendant of a kin comprising many wonderful contributors, an lively player and supporter of the humanities, a lady of stature between expert friends and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.

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