Her creative writing was shaped by her politics as she wrote poems and novels about peace, women's suffrage, and other social issues.
[2] She co-wrote several books with Doris Webster [Wikidata], including Consider the Consequences!, the first gamebook, in which readers choose which of various alternate paths the plot should follow.
The NYC-WPP's anti-war sentiments appeared in their bi-weekly periodical Four Lights with a gender-based critique of American society and democracy.
[8] On July 14, 1917, Hopkins, a member of the NYC-WPP along with other young educated radical reformers, wrote an editorial for Four Lights titled, "What are the War Aims and Peace terms of the American Women?
[5] Later in her forties, Hopkins lost faith in protest and rebellion as she noticed that the radicals fighting against these institutions "get no more satisfaction than did the conformists and smugness seemed equally common among both extremes.
"[14] Along with the stopped publication of the Four Lights, the mixed results that activists got led to the question of "will it work" becoming her moral code.