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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Lois Brown
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Description for Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Paperback. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 704 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; DSBF; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1361.
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 slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North.
Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information ... Read more
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 slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North.
Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469614564
SKU
V9781469614564
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About Lois Brown
Lois Brown is associate professor of English and director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College. She is editor of Memoir of James Jackson, The Obedient Scholar Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months by His Teacher, Miss Susan Paul.
Reviews for Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
The brilliance of Brown's excavation of her career and the reverential consideration she provides for Hopkins make for happy reading and a long overdue appreciation for a true 'black daughter of the revolution.'"
African American Review |"Brown uses extensive archival research, including genealogical materials, to trace significant events in Hopkins's life and experiences of her ancestors and to clarify inconsistencies ... Read more
African American Review |"Brown uses extensive archival research, including genealogical materials, to trace significant events in Hopkins's life and experiences of her ancestors and to clarify inconsistencies ... Read more