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(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Pauline E. Hopkins. New Illustrated Lecture: The Rise of the Black Republic. Engraved full-length portrait of Hopkins on first page. 5 pages, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, on 2 sheets; folds, moderate wear, minor dampstaining, uneven toning to final page. Boston, circa December 1889
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) of Boston was an important Black literary figure in the late 19th and early 20th century: playwright, novelist, editor of Colored American Magazine and New Era Magazine, and active lecturer. This pamphlet from early in her career promotes her illustrated historical lecture on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It begins with a long introduction by William Alexander Hopkins (1835-1906), her stepfather and manager. He boasts of her "genius and culture, a fine presence and a beautiful voice" adding that "all races love to be judged by the great men they produce. Let no man, woman, or child with one iota of race price fail to hear this Lecture and see these Views." Pages 3 and 4 contain several endorsements of the lecture from June and September 1889. Inserted is a one-page addendum with more endorsements from October to November 1889, including a long review translated from a Santo Domingo newspaper.
