In 1881 four of Pope's short stories were published in "Waverly Magazine", a "weekly magazine for ladies". The stories were so well received that "The Broad Ax" proclaimed Pope "A new literary star". Those four stories were later included in Daniel Murray, Thomas J. Calloway and W. E. B. Du Bois's landmark The Exhibit of American Negroes organized for the 1900 Paris World's Fair.