Contending Forces

By:

Pauline E Hopkins

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Rediscovered Classics

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Sappho Clark — beautiful, mysterious, Southern — arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho’s financial independence; Dora Smith admires Sappho’s quiet self-possession; and Will Smith, Dora’s brother, falls madly in love with Sappho. But as Sappho enters the Smiths’ community, it becomes clear that her beauty is a lure to bad actors, including someone who entertains dark suspicions about her past... A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston’s thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.

Author Biography:

Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930) was a Black novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Hopkins grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.

Release date NZ

March 21st, 2024

Author

Pauline E Hopkins

Series

Rediscovered Classics

Pages

272

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781454951544

Product ID

36616601

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