Her use of imagery and personification throughout the writing draws the reader into the sick mind of a young mother struggling to find herself again and broaches the issue of feminism. According to the Online Literature website, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. Her father, a librarian, abandoned the family early on and Charlotte was often looked after by her Great aunt and uncle, Harriet and Henry Beecher. Henry was a social reformer and Harriet was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Due to the strong social and literary influences, Charlotte was drawn to literature and began writing at a young age.
Among her father's forebears was the novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, his aunt. Perkins abandoned his wife after their infant died in 1866 - Mary Perkins lived with her children on the brink of poverty and was often forced to move from relative to relative or to other temporary lodgings. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an avid reader and largely self-educated. She studied two years at Rhode Island School of Design (1878-80) and then earned her living designing greetings cards. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist.
In 1823 The Unitarian journal, Monthly Repository, published her anonymous article, On Female Education. Her brother James Martineau praised it, and when he discovered that his sister was the author, said: "Now, dear, leave it to the other women to make skirts and darn
Also as a child she encounters a passionate love affair, which can be somewhat comparable to her relationships even in old age. • The story-within-the-story aspects reinforces the interesting outlook on life that Alice posseses. It shows how competent she still as a senior, and disproves the mellow life she lives in a retirement community. Her blatant telling of her memories from childhood disturbed most of the other listeners in the writing club, and through this Lee reveals the blinded life that a majority of people carry with them until death. It is a natural defense mechanism to deny troubling truths that one doesn't want a face, and I commend Lee Smith for being one of the brave individuals who can look past their unconscious regulations.
Shawn M. Henry Dr. Jerry Giddens English 111 February 9, 2010 In this book There Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston the main character Jaine Crawford is searching for love through relationships. These relationships were between herself, Nanny, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible Woods known as Tea Cake. Her grandmother referred to as Nanny took care of her when Janie’s mother ran away. They lived in a house on the land of Mrs. Washburn, Nanny’s white boss. Growing up Janie played with Mrs. Washburn’s children and wore their old clothes.
She showed her great love for her husband in another well-known poem she wrote called “To My Dear and Loving Husband.†The first lines of this poem -“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee,â€- make it clear that Bradstreet and her husband had a very loving marriage and that she was extremely happy (www.library.utoronto.ca). She wrote a similarly themed work about her children in poem called “In Reference to My Children†(www.ask.com). Anne’s life in the colony also affected her poetry. This can be seen in her poem “Upon a Fit of Sickness,†in which she wrote about a time in which she came close to death when struck by a plague.
Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer in promoting women’s rights and education. It was supposed to be the early time that she thought of writing. In this sense, on the one hand, she was a lucky girl in Victorian period that has the opportunity to come into contact with many new ideas, and also the meeting with Percy Shelly who later became her husband. But, on the other hand, she was also a poor girl for Mary never knew her mother, who died after giving birth to her. Mary left home at 16 with her lover Percy Shelly who married her and inspired her in literary writing.
Fuller would teach his daughter for her to be a self sufficient woman whose intellect were challenged constantly and thus could compete academically in a patriarchal world. Margaret learned how to read at the age of three and a half, and by the age of five she was translating small passages from Virgil. Her love for reading made her earned the reputation of the best-read person in New England by the age of thirty. Her devotion for the cause of women’s equality began after her father’s death when in the lack of a will, two of her uncles decided to handle the finances leaving her and her family penniless. She wrote at the time how she regretted to be “of the softer sex, and never more than now.” Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century, initially published as an article in the magazine The Dial, has been considered the first major feminine manifesto.
Firstly, Sommers stated how she tries to teach her daughters to be optimistic. Secondly, Sommers stated of how she wants the students to use themselves as sources.” Finally, at the end of the essay Sommers writes, "Having the courage to live with uncertainty, ambiguity, even doubt, we can walk into all of those fields of writing.” Sommers stated how she tries to teach her daughter to be optimistic. The writer states that,”Despite the sheer facts of her life, despite the accumulation of grim knowable data,” her mother was optimistic. Sommers tell the reader of how her family fled from Germany when she was thirteen and how her grandparents were killed by Nazis. Sommers is trying to teach her daughters that there is more out there and that they can be optimistic, despite what may be going on in our lives.
In the book, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, the importance of family bonds was expressed. This novel emphasized more on family bonds. The value of family bonds were displayed as the Bundren family cooperated and fought against hardships life together. The importance of family, shows struggling in issues in life, such as social classes and the importance of hardships. As their mother, Addie dies, the Bundrens learn to cooperate and work together to fulfill their mother's wish.