San Antonio College Library

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the "Colored American Magazine", Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. "The Motherless Child", the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fictions, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis...