S4:E2 – Pauline Hopkins

Victorian Scribblers

Sources for this episode:

• Lois Brown. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
• Hanna Wallinger. Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography
• Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• [The Pauline Hopkins Society] (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org)
• [Black Past article on Hopkins] (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hopkins-pauline-elizabeth-1859-1930)
• [Library on Congress. The Grand Army of the Republic] (https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/)
• [Robert C. Hayden. African Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years] (https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00hayd_0)
• William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. Documenting the American South

Additional resources

• [The Colored American Magazine] (http://coloredamerican.org/?page_id=548#hopkins)
• [N. King. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon] (http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67208/1/N%20King%20Teaching%20Af%20Am%20Crime%20Fiction.pdf)
• [Richard Yarborough, JoAnn Pavletich, Ira Dworkin, and Lauren Dembowitz. 'Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production'] (https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy014)

The four men elected in 1870 were Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 and seated in 1870. [Oct. 19, 1870: First African Americans Elected to the House of Representatives] (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/)