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Contending Forces

Pauline E. Hopkins

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English
Union Square & Co.
21 March 2024
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.
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Imprint:   Union Square & Co.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 137mm, 
ISBN:   9781454951544
ISBN 10:   1454951540
Series:   Rediscovered Classics
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Pauline E. Hopkins (18591930) 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.

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