At birth Chanel’s name was entered into the official registry as “Chasnel.” It is speculated that this spelling was a clerical error or an ancient spelling of the family name. [3] The couple eventually had five other children: Julia-Berthe, (1882–1913), Antoinette (born 1887) and three brothers, Alphonse (born 1885), Lucien (born 1889) and Augustin (born and died 1891). In 1895, when she was twelve years old, Chanel’s mother died of tuberculosis. Her father sent her two brothers out as farm laborers and the three daughters to a bleak area of central France, the Corrèze, into the hands of a convent for orphans, Aubazine. [4] It was a stark, frugal life demanding strict discipline but raised with the charity of the Catholic faith.
A major reason of his influence was the fact that he was also a writer. He was not the only one that played a role in her life. Louisa’s “friends and neighbors included writers Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau“. In fact, it was a family friend that motivated Louisa to write her first book. Louisa’s first book “flower Fables” was written for the daughter of Emerson, a family friend.
The house was later marked as a historic landmark in 1971 by the state of New Hampshire. Cummings was married two times, both short and unsuccessful. His first union, in 1924, started as a love affair with one of Cummings friend’s wife, Elaine Orr. Cumming and Elaine had a daughter Nancy, 6 years prior to their marriage. Elaine left Cummings nine short months after the two wed and ran away with her daughter to Ireland, where she later married a rich Irish Broker.
In August 1929 Salvador Dali met his future wife Gala, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, who was a Russian immigrant and 10 years older then Dali. Gala died on June 10, 1982. After Gala's death, Dali lost much of his will to live. He deliberately dehydrated himself, probably a suicide attempt, or perhaps in an attempt to
Growing up, she was most widely influenced by her mother and grandmother after her father was killed in a train accident when she was four years old. She attended school until she graduated at the age of 17. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin and moved with him to New Orleans. However in 1880 when they suffered financial problems and were forced to move in with her father-in-law, where Oscar Chopin took over his father's plantation. Soon after, 1883 Oscar Chopin died, and she had to take over the plantation.
She Walks in Beauty" is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. One of Lord Byron's most famous, it is a lyric poem that describes a woman of much beauty and elegance. The poem appears to be told from the view point of third person omniscient. There are no hints as to the identity of the narrator, but it is believed that the narrator may be Byron himself. The poem is said to have been inspired by the vision of Byron's cousin by marriage in a mourning gown.
The neglect from her brother and low self-esteem led to Horney’s depression which would affect her for the rest of her life. In 1904 Horney’s stepmother divorced her father and left him to raise Horney and Brendlt by himself. “In 1906, Horney entered medical school against her parent's wishes. At medical school, she met Oscar Horney and married him in 1909. In 1910, she gave birth to Brigitte, the first of three daughters.
Some people call her a surrealist although, she says that what she paints is her own reality. At a young age, she married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The turbulent, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of careers, divorce, remarriage, Frida’s lesbian affairs, her poor health and her sterility. Frida once said, “I suffered two grave accidents in my life…One in a bus and the other was Diego” (Kahlo 30). When Diego started to work on a mural, in the Rockefeller Center in New York, Frida came along with him, and after more than three years in America Frida wanted desperately to return to her native Mexico.
Wadsworth had two wives during his lifetime. His first, a woman by the name of Marry Potter and former classmate of Longfellow, died during a miscarriage. His second wife brought him new confidence: “Frances finally accepted his proposal the following spring, ushering in the happiest 18 years of Longfellow’s life” (Slater). During their marriage he published the book length poem, Evangeline. When she died due to a fire.
(Ewell) Kate experienced much loss at a young age, three of her family members died by the time she was thirteen. The first death was of her father on November 1st, 1855 from a train accident leaving her mother to raise the children with the help of Kate’s grandmother and great grandmother. When she was thirteen, her great grandmother and half brother passed away a month apart. Her great grandmother was rumored to be a great influence on her from her story telling and encouragement. (Ewell) During her school years Chopin attended St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, there she was encouraged to write and express herself.