17 Facts About Pauline Hopkins

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.

Pauline Hopkins is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.

Pauline Hopkins is known to have had connections to other influential African Americans of the time, such as Booker T Washington and William Wells Brown.

Pauline Hopkins spent most of her life in Boston, Massachusetts, where she completed the majority of her works.

Northrup had been influential in Providence, Rhode Island, due to his political ties and Pauline Hopkins' mother was a native of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Pauline Hopkins placed first in the contest and won $10 in gold.

Pauline Hopkins became well known for her various roles as a dramatist, actress and singer.

Pauline Hopkins' earliest known work, a musical play called Slaves' Escape; or, The Underground Railroad, was first performed at Oakland Garden in Boston during the year 1880.

Pauline Hopkins explored the difficulties faced by African Americans amid the racist violence of post-Civil War America in her first novel, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, published in 1900.

Pauline Hopkins's motive is to raid the country of lost treasures, which he does find.

Pauline Hopkins wrote the novel intending, in her own words, to "raise the stigma of degradation from [the Black] race".

Pauline Hopkins was named Editor of the Women's Department by the second issue, and Literary Editor of the magazine by November 1903.

Pauline Hopkins would continue to work for the magazine until she left in September 1804 due to health complications.

Pauline Hopkins is remembered for writing one of the first mystery drama plays by a Black woman.

Pauline Hopkins' novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South was reprinted as a part of this series.

Pauline Hopkins's work has been regarded among other notable African-American writers at the time such as Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Sutton Griggs by Richard Yarborough.

Pauline Hopkins died in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was buried in the Garden Cemetery in Chelsea, Massachusetts.