The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.

• Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians (American Women Writers Series)
• Ragged Dick
• Daisy Miller and Other Tales
• The Pioneers (Leatherstocking Tale)
• The Lamplighter (American Women Writers Series)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
• Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
• The Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics)
• Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme (Penguin Classics)