The University of North Carolina Press

704 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 29 illus., appends., notes, bibl., index

Gender and American Culture

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-3166-3

Published: June 2008

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Black Daughter of the Revolution

By Lois Brown

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About the Author

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

"Includes not only excellent readings of her novels . . . but also much new information about Hopkins' ancestry and her later years. . . . Provides a solid base for future study. . . . Highly recommended."
--Choice

"Lois Brown's biography of Pauline Hopkins is a truly astonishing piece of scholarship. The research is prodigious, the material truly compelling, the writing clear and articulate. Brown's approach to Hopkins's oeuvre through the lens of family genealogy and ancestral legacy allows for a seamless interweaving of life and letters which works amazingly well. Hers will stand as the definitive Hopkins biography for decades to come."
--Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland