Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."--Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ.
"Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review
"Terrific romance!"--Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, Lincoln Center
"Fits into my course wonderfully."--Noelle Arrangoiz, University of Denver
Review
"Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in
The New York Times Book ReviewSynopsis
In Contending Forces (1900), her best-known novel and her only work of fiction published in book form during her lifetime, Pauline Hopkins uses the conventions of the sentimental romance as she seeks to encourage social change.