Born in the French countryside, in the small town of Saumur on August 19, 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was orphaned of mother (who was a seamstress) to thirteen years old. His father, Albert Chanel, sent her to a boarding of the French city of Auvergne, where he remained until the end of adolescence. However, the simple life of the country town did not match the eagerness of Coco Chanel. Worked as a clerk in a fabric store (where you learn the profession of seamstress and wield the needle to perfection) and even a cabaret called Cafe de la Rotonde Beuglant, where he sang the song "Qui qu'a vu Coco dans le Trocadero?" (responsible for the origin of his nickname Coco).
Short Biographies of Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou, and Julia Child Cagle 2 One woman born before 1900: Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Born to Edwin and Amy Stanton, Amelia was the eldest of two daughters. Her childhood was spent playing with her sister, Murial (nicknamed “Pidge”). Amelia was known for playing as hard as boys and never letting her gender inhibit her play. She even built a roller coaster in her backyard.
When Julie was very young her parents separated, and her mother remarried a man named Ted Andrews who she had performed in a musical act with for couple of years. Ted would sing and Barbara would play the piano. Ted was actually the first one to teach Julie how to sing. In the spring of 1943, when she was only seven years old, Julie began taking singing lessons with Ted and enrolled in a conservatory for the performing arts in London where her aunt was a dance instructor. She had a very rigorous schedule for her age.
There are several purposes Willa Cather has in her short story, “A Wagner Matinee.” The two main purposes of this story are to entertain the reader and to reveal a theme. Before discussing theses purposes, back ground on Cather will be given so as to gain as better understanding and appreciation for her writing. Willa Sibert Cather was born December 7th, 1873 on a small farm in Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. Her mother and father, Mary and Charles Cather, had seven children, Willa being the oldest. The family moved to the immigrant village of Red Cloud, Nebraska in 1883.
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.
Merwin who admired both the work of Sylvia and Ted. When Sylvia became pregnant with the couple's first child, they decided to move back to the United Kingdom, where they lived in Devon. On April 1, 1960, Freida Hughes was born. After the birth of her first daughter, Sylvia's first collection of poems titled, "The Colossus" was published in the United Kingdom Later in 1961, Sylvia suffered a devastating miscarriage. This event pulled her deeper into depression and it was very evident in her writing and in everything… In 1960, Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems, The Colossus was published.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel French fashion designer, born on the 19th of August 1883 in a poor hous Saumur, France. Coco Chanel was a pauper who had five siblings 2 sisters Julie, Antoinette and three Brothers Alphonse, Lucien and Augstin. Unfortunately her life was anything but glamorous, her mother Jeanne Devollec died in 1895 when Chanel was eleven , After her mother’s death Chanel’s father took Gabriella and her sister Julie to an orphanage, and her brothers went to a farm and became child laborers. Gabrielle had been staying in the orphanage for six years. She was a fierce, pretty, and restless girl, and she knew that she was different from other , she was raised and taught sewing by nuns this helped her a lot in her future career.
Chanel's family grew with a sister Antoinette and brothers Alphonse, Lucien and Augustin who died as an infant. Four years after the death of Augustin in 1891 Chanel's mother passed away. Chanel's father left the children with various family and in orphanages. 12 year old Cahnel was left in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine. There she learned to sew and Chanel spent school vacations with realtives learning to sew with more style than what was thought by the nuns in the monastery.
Kate Chopin Biography Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on February 8, 1850 to Thomas O'Flaherty and Eliza Faris. Her father was Irish and her mother was French Canadian, so she became bilingual at a very young age. As a child, she was an avid reader of fairy tales, poetry, and classic novels. 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.
As I reflect on why she may have chosen to write this essay, I believe it was to share how not having time for team sports and clubs like her classmates and friends, was not all it appeared to be. She started out by telling us that “a typical child should not have to wake up at five in the morning to do chores!” Currently the farm is a family business and according to Jessica, the 100 cows were milked by her father and sister Melissa. While her brother Nick and another sister Angie fed the other cows. And she was responsible for the feeding of the newborn calves every morning prior to attending school. Through this literary writing, Jessica was able to take here reader from childhood into adulthood.