Her novels questioned the female role in marriage, she wrote about affaires and how they triggered a feeling of passion that couldn’t be obtained through a marriage. Katherine died in 1904 from a brain hemorrhage. She would never know it but, “The Awakening” would be an inspiration to women around the world. Her novel was republished in the 1960’s and today is required reading material for anyone taking a women’s history class. Her eye opening depiction of woman’s wants, our needs and desires, her insight to a world Katherine herself probably couldn’t even fully understand, was and is inspirational.
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. Anne lost many of her friends and neighbors to sicknesses (www.library.utoronto.ca). Some of Anne’s other works include “The Prologue,†“The Vanity of All Worldly Thingsâ€, and many “Meditations†(www.britannic.com) <br> Anne Bradstreet was truly a pioneer of poetry. When Bradstreet was being published, female writers were unheard of. Bradstreet’s Puritan beliefs were obviously a very big part of her life because they influence almost every one of her works (www.encarta.msn.com).
Without diction Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies, would never be able to further develop her characters, Dede, Patria, and Mate. Alvarez uses many different writing techniques in order to develop her three characters above. Alvarez develops Dede's character using figurative language. Dede's chapters are full of similes, juxtapositions, personification, and metaphors to develop who she is. When Dede is talking about her sisters after they die she makes the comment that she is "the grande dame of the beautiful, terrible past" (65).
Robert Olen Mr. Pagel ENGL 1010 February 11, 2012 "homage to my hips" Lucille Clifton was a woman of great pride in herself as well as her heritage. The poem "homage to my hips" was not the first poem that she wrote honoring certain assets that involved her physical appearance. Mrs. Clifton also wrote the poems "Homage of Mine", and "homage to my hair." The poems were written in the sixties, but not published until later after a public reading in New York, where Random House ask Lucille to submit a manuscript of some of her works. There are plenty of examples in the poem that portrays the struggles of the time for women, not to mention her struggling nationality that has been fighting for equal rights for over a century.
"She simply had no need for heterosexual relationships, she was married to her art." (Woodress). In her book, Willa Cather : The Emerging Voice, Sharon O'Brien discusses Cather's sexuality. She dwells mainly on Cather's relationship with her best friend Louise Pound and says, "That Willa Cather was a lesbian should not be an unexamined assumption, h owever, but a conclusion reached after considering questions of definition, evidence and interpretation." Yet, after her affair with Pound ended, Cather found "more enduring and supportive relationships," (O'Brien) with Isabelle McClung and later with Edith Lewis, yet she never declared publicly that she was in fact a lesbian.
Her novel `The Awakening' (1899) shocked many people with its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and artistic longings. Collins, Martha Layne (born 1963) Kentucky's first female governor and first woman to chair the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors. Friedan, Betty (born 1921) Born in the U.S., a famous author and known feminist. She wrote the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique" and challenged traditional roles of women. Cofounder and president of the National Organization for Women (from 1966-1977).
The Book Thief: Character Analysis I chose the main character Leisel Meminger in "The Book Thief" because she made so many changes throughout the story and I found her very interesting. This story was a biography that she wrote about herself. Her biography was picked up by Death who had it published after her death. In the story, Leisel is the main character who we hear about from the time she rode on the train with her mom and brother to adulthood. Leisel had many wonderful traits but also some bad traits too.
, powerful, passionate, these are just some of the words that describe Willa Cather. A Pulitzer Prize Winning author, whose works inspired many young authors. Though some may say her final works marked the decline of her artistic power, she is still a literature genius. She wrote of women’s struggles and frontier life in her novels: Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira the Slave Girl, and Shadows on the Rock. Willa Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1817.
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. Written in a period when women were not allowed to even have a college education, Woman in the Nineteenth Century is based on the equal nature of man and woman derived from the divine love of God. To compensate the lack of education of women, she hosted meetings with other women in the Boston area to discuss and debate the real purpose of women in life and other topics such as mythology, philosophy, and fine arts. With these “conversations” she gained more widespread exposure and laid the seed in women’s minds about their place in the world. Her work focused basely in social reform instead of individual improvement, which is what makes her work different than those of the Transcendentalists at the
Willa Cather was an extremely accomplishing journalist and author of short fiction novels also she was an English teacher, fraught with becoming a novelist (Arnold 2). It was just common sense that her long experience in newspaper work that Cather would start her occupation in journalism, though in the 1880’s it was unusual to have a woman in this field (Forman 3).That did not stop her though she kept on making more and more novels and short stories At a young age Cather wrote more than forty so tries, at least 500 columns and reviews,etc. even after she wrote novel she kept on making short stories (Arnold 3). Now only did Willa achieved myriads of things but she also gained awards as well. Willa Cather first received widely praise as an crucial author when Cather got the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (Pollard 81).