Pauline Hopkins
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. A noted contributor to the racial, political, and feminist discourse of the time, Hopkins was among t
Hopkins circa 1901
Original cover of Contending Forces (1900)
Original cover of the magazine in which Of One Blood was first published (November 1902).
Cover of New Era Magazine, issue 1 vol. 1 (February 1916)
Charles W. Chesnutt
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African-American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in
Pauline Hopkins
…influenced writers in the past, present and now future. Her 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. In relation to women's publications, Yarborough calls her "the single most productive…
Chesnutt at age 40
Chesnutt's library at his Cleveland home
Title page for The Conjure Woman (1899)
First edition cover of The House Behind the Cedars (1900)