After having such a traumatizing childhood, she still found a way to overcome the obstacles and become a novelist. Soon after their mother died at such a young age, the three older sisters, Charlotte, Elizabeth, and Maria attended religious school. In one of Charlotte's novels she claims that abuse took place in the school. Emily enrolled a little bit later than her sisters did. When typhoid fever took over the school, Maria and Elizabeth caught it.
Her mother endured 18 pregnancies before she died of tuberculosis at the age of 49. (Plant, R. 2010) Because of her mother’s death and her father’s inability to support a large family Margaret associated large families with ill-health and poverty, and small families with prosperity and progress. Margaret first became a teacher, but that did not suit her. In 1902 she completed her training and became a nurse. By age 23 she was married and within months she was repeating her mother’s history.
Chapter 15 from the book “I Knew Why the Caged Bird Sings” “Sister Flowers” 07/20/10 The thesis of the essay is that being educated in school books alone doesn’t translate to intelligence. Maya Angelou wrote in the chapter that, Mrs. Flowers has said to Marguerite, “you must be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.” Mrs. Flowers then encouraged Marguerite, “to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” which means a person needs more than just book smarts to be consider intelligent and to able to use that intelligence to survive in life; a person that has wits though life experiences can be more intelligent than people that just gain knowledge in only school books because the people with wits are more savvy from their social life experiences compare to people that live life educated only though book.
Born Phoebe Ann Moses (or Mosey) on August 13, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio, was the woman who would later be known as Annie Oakley. When Annie’s father passed away her mother had no choice but to send her to live at the Darke County Infirmary, where she received schooling and sewing instruction while helping in the care of orphaned children. When she was about 10, she agreed to become a servant for another local farming family. The family later became abusive, and Annie referred to them later only as "the wolves." She stayed with them for two years before running away, back to the Darke County Infirmary.
She also remember the announcement on television about the death of Dr. King in1968, the telephone ringing while the news was been reported and it was her sister calling to say turn the T.V on Dr. king is dead, they killed him as she fell to the floor. At age 40 she Lena completed college and received her masters degree in education and taught seventh grade math and health. The children left home some went to college and the military, got married, had children, bought homes ECT. At age 50 Lena found out she had a brain tumor and had to be hospitalized and had brain surgery. For a year after surgery she suffered from an speech impairment and had to learn how to speak again.
In 1832 her family moved to America where she became an avid abolitionist throughout her late childhood and early adulthood. In 1836 her father’s sugar refinery burned down and in 1838 her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in an attempt to re-establish the business, unfortunately three weeks after their move Samuel died from Bilary Fever. Pressed financially after her father’s death Elizabeth and her three sisters started a school for Young Girls. In 1894 her sister Anna, helped Elizabeth acquire a teaching job paying $400 a year in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1856 Blackwell adopted Katherine “Kitty” Barry a Scottish Orphan.
“The truth was, she’d been able to leave Constance- apparently because she was considered a bad influence on the other girls. Jenny hadn’t thought she was being a bad influence at all- she was just trying to have fun, like every other girl at school.” Drama, lies, and gossip; these are all used in The it Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar as foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is the act of hinting toward something that will happen in the future. This always keeps you guessing and wondering what will happen next. The foreshadowing in this story, although blatant, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
She would live, but was restricted to bed rest for nearly a year, one leg that was shorter than the other, and ulcers in her feet that would later cause the need to amputate her right leg. At fifteen, Frida enter the National Preparatory School, where she studied biology and physiology, in hopes of becoming a doctor, which would later be used in many of her pieces. At eighteen, Frida was severely injured in a bus accident, in which she was pierced with a metal rod through her pelvis, in addition to many broken bones and internal bleeding. Her spine had been pushed so far out of place and her pelvis so severely damaged that she was forced to wear massive body casts to help aid in her healing process. Frida would never fully recover from her injuries, and the pain would plague her until she died.
I liked it because it gives a different view of women at this time. For the most part we are shown women who are either content with their place, or if not content they don't challenge it. I also thought it was interesting to read what the women were taught in schools. Shortly after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 1783 that slavery was incompatible with the new state's constitution, African Americans began seeking equal access to public schooling. They understood that education was critical to economic, social, and political equality.
During a time of patriarchal society entrenched in the catholic faith, the main ‘genteel’ occupation for an unmarried middle-class woman available was that of a governess. Mary Poovey explains that as a ‘teacher and example for children…the governess…was expected to…police the emergence of undue assertiveness in her charges … she was not expected to display wilfulness or desires herself’ (p196, extract in Regan, 2001). Poovey also allies governesses with other female roles such as the ‘lunatic’ driven mad by denial and restraint. The ‘fallen woman’ is also referred to, as in many cases, due to the insecurity and competitiveness of the governess’s position; women were ‘driven to the streets’ (p198). This also identifies the sexual restraint women endured and may also allude to the ‘mistress’ role.