Edna won an award for her book called The Harp-Weaver; the award was called Pulitzer Prize. Edna first major book of poetry was published in 1971 called Renascence. Then “A Few Figs from Thistle” was published in 1922 and got some people attention as well as controversy with its feminist learning (Modern American
Melba Pattillo was born on December 7, 1941, in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Beals grew up surrounded by family members who knew the importance of an education. Her mother, Lois Marie Pattillo, PhD, was one of the first black graduates of the University Of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1954 and was a high school English teacher at the time of the crisis. Her father, Howell Pattillo, worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. She had one brother, Conrad, who served as a U.S. marshal in Little Rock, and they all lived with her grandmother, India Peyton.
Rachel Louise Carson Life Begins Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, where she lived with her family. Her family was very poor, and she had two older siblings with which she shared a room. She was very interested in nature, which she claimed to have learned from her mother. She also loved to write. In fact, when she was ten years old, she wrote a story called St. Nick, that was published in a kid’s magazine.
In 1978 Olivarius was awarded one of only 32 American Rhodes Scholarships available. At Oxford, Ann Olivarius completed a doctorate in Economics, analysing worker-owned high technology firms and was awarded the Nuffield prize. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) honoured her for this outstanding research. Olivarius served as a Governor of Manchester College and, while on assignment to the International law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, was instrumental in drafting the early arbitration rules which later outlined London as the main centre for international dispute resolution. Ann Olivarius became the first person to complete the Yale Law School joint JD-MBA Five year programme in only three years, with honours.
After two years after her divorce, Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood who was an educated, polite and respectful man who believed in spiritualism and free love. Victoria and Tennessee published Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, a journal that addressed all controversial topics, in 1870. On April 2, 1870, Woodhull announced that she had plans to run for presidency, being the first woman to ever do so. Woodhull’s plan was to just run independently and use Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly to publicize her campaign. Victoria Woodhull had gotten support for her campaign from suffragists, land and labor reformers, peace and temperance advocates, internationalists, and spiritualists.
It also shows Cather’s reflection on frontier life, as the story is told by her childhood-self retelling stories that have been told to her as she was growing up in the south. The young Lucy Gayheart is the center of the story in the book of the same name. Lucy is a young piano studies major from Haverford, and resides by the Platte River. While on Christmas holiday, she’s joined by the most eligible bachelor
The autobiography is now frequently read as a complement to non fictional works that delve into the subject of racism. The autobiography tells that the strength of character and a love of literature helped Maya Angelou overcoming racism and trauma. The autobiography begins with three years old Maya and her older brother Bailey, they both are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Reviewers often categorize I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as autobiographical fiction because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, but some critical view
However, they became embroiled in a dispute over who deserved credit and the play never saw production. Her major achievements were generally between 1931 and 1943, when she wrote scholarly works on folklore and published six major novels. In 1937, Hurston’s greatest, and probably the most notable novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, was published. Some of her fantastic writings are: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934 First novel), Moses, Mules and Men (1935), Tell My Horse (1938), Man of the Mountain (1939), Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948 and last novel). Unfortunately, her reputation got affected in 1948 when she was arrested for molesting a ten-year-old retarded boy; the charges were later
Discovery Paper- Ella Fitzgerald “Who gave you permission to rearrange me? Certainly, certainly not me… the world is mines, when I wake up, I don’t need nobody telling me the time.” The above lyrics come from my favorite song from one of my favorite female artists, Erykah Badu. The song, “Certainly”, was from her 1997 debut album, Baduism. Considered to be one of the pioneers in the neo-soul movement, Badu’s music, in my opinion, is perfect combination of R&B, jazz, blues, and soul, with a surge of hip-hop. She’s known at her shows for her impromptu style; she’ll perform a brand new song at random, or do a call-and-response section in the middle of her song unbeknownst to her band and/or back-up singers.
Catherine Terry App 200; Introduction to Appalachia Catherine Herdman September 6, 2015 Loretta Lynn was born and raised in rural Eastern Kentucky in Butcher Holler, Van Lear, Kentucky. Being a coal miner’s daughter, she was married at 15, and began writing and singing her own music in her early 20’s. She went from signing in local honky-tonks, receiving small-time record deals, on to national tours and hit singles with the help of her husband, Oliver Lynn. By this time the couple had 4 children, yet the struggles, her husband pushed her to prevail. Her first single became a hit in 1960, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl”.