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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Renaissance Woman

Portrait of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, ca. 1900

Pauline E. Hopkins, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Boston: Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., 1900)

Portrait of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, ca. 1900

Pauline E. Hopkins, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Boston: Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., 1900)

The Colored American Magazine

The Colored American Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1902

The Colored American Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1902

Let the good work go on. Opposition is the life of an enterprise; criticism tells you that you are doing something. 

Pauline E. Hopkins, 1903

Literary Legacy

New Era Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1916

New Era Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1916

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