Billie Holiday Childhood to Adulthood Billie Holiday was conceived by a thirteen year old single child. Her mother Sadie was basically disowned by her parents because she was pregnant. Sadie Harris had Billie and entrusted her care to her half-sister Eva Miller who happened to be married because Sadie did not have the means to take care of Billie. The first ten years of Billie’s life was pretty much without her mother because Sadie worked as a server on passenger railroads. Although Sadie left Billie with her half-sister, Billie was basically taken care of by Eva’s mother-in-law Martha Miller.
Oscar died of swamp fever there in 1882 and Kate took over the running of his general store and plantation for over a year. In 1884 she had to sell it up and moved back to St. Louis to live with her mother. Sadly, Eliza O'Flaherty died the next year, leaving Kate alone with her children again. To support herself and her young family, she began to write. By the end of 1880s, Kate Chopin was writing short stories, articles, and translations which appeared in periodicals.
The pub did well even during the beginning of the depression, but soon suffered because patrons could not pay their bills that they had run up. The family then began to work harder, as they had to lay off employees to keep running. (“Mary Higgins Clark”) When Mary was 11, she came home to find that her father had died in his sleep. This further complicated the family’s finances, as Nora was now a widow, and a mother of three young children. Nora had tried to find work, but she had been a homemaker for fourteen years, so it was had to get back into the job market.
Mary Phagan was born on June 1, 1900 to John and Frances Phagan in Marietta, Georgia. Mary’s father died when she was very young. As a result, her mother remarried J.W. Coleman. Her wages were $1.20 per hour which she went to collect from Mr. Frank on the day of the murder(Pou, Charles).
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.
Lily says, “See my mother had died when I was little, and then my father died in a tractor accident last month on our farm in Spartanburg country…” (73). She lies so she can stay there and slowly learn about her mother. Lily is living a secret life just like the bees, “Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.” (148). Just like Lily the bees also have a secret life. She realizes that she needs to tell August Boatwright about her mother soon.
Introduction The famous designer, Madeleine Vionnet was born on June 22, 1876 in Chilleurs-aux-Bois, France. She was born into a poor family, with her mother a seamstress and her father a mounted policeman. Vionnet’s first apprenticeship as a seamstress started at the age of twelve, and by the time she was sixteen, she had gotten her first job at a fashion house called Vincent & Cie. When Madeleine Vionnet was eighteen years old, she was married and had a child. Unfortunately, her daughter died at only two years old, and eventually Vionnet’s husband and she divorced.
Edie is a fifteen year old girl that did not fare very well in school, so her parents decided to take her out of school after she finished the last in the class. Edie went to for Dr. and Mrs. Pebbles where she took care of the two children and cared for the home and the cooking. The plot is the dynamic element in fiction, a sequence if interrelated, conflicting actions and events that typically build to a climax and bring about a resolution (Clugston, 2010). The plot in “How I Meet My Husband” is how a young innocent farm girl waiting for a gypsy pilot to write her a letter. She never hears from him again but still manages to find love while maturing and learning a life lesson.
Harriet never knew she was a slave until her mother died when she was six years old. At that time, Harriet and her siblings moved in with their grandmother, Molly. Harriet's educations was very limited her grandmother taught her to read and sew, and her grandmother also firmly instilled
Professor Douglas W: 6-8.50 Sociological Perspective Essay My mother is the first generation in my family born in the United States. My grandmother was born and raised on a small farm on the outskirts of rural town called Zucapo in Mexico. At nineteen my grandmother and her three younger sisters decided to move to Texas and start their life in America. Having known little English and having even less education, the move to the United States was a challenge to say the least. She worked odd jobs in hazardous conditions for hours and hours on end till she met my grandfather.