First, Christine can “speak” to readers by channeling her own persona into her main character. Further, the form of authorial conversation with allegorical figures was a popular didactic medieval convention, and this textual structure remains accessible today. When Judith L. Kellogg writes, “the space in which the city [of ladies] is built must be within each woman,” she bridges the six-hundred years since the writing of The Book of the City of Ladies with a few strokes of her pen. In other words, Christine urges individual women to take the first step toward realizing a feminist hereafter. By writing (as author) and creating (as heroine) a city of ladies, Christine emphasizes women’s spaces, self-defense, and memory as keys to the creation of women’s history and future.
Research paper The Newbery Medal for books is a great honor for an author to receive. There are many authors that have received this great honor, one being Sharon Creech for her metal winning book Walk Two Moons. This book has humor, style and parts of Creech’s life throughout it that makes it a fun and interesting book to read. The themes, ideas and characters in the story are a direct relation to many instances in the author’s life. How Themes and characters are presented throughout the book help the Newbery groups decide who will be the award winner for the year.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice written in the early 19th century is a classic novel that can be well dissected and understand by considering the values and attitudes in which people performed in that context. Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, written in the late 20th century has enhanced this understanding through the intensive facts in which she has provided in her text about Jane Austen’s context. Both being a successful female writer, audiences are able to see the similarities in which both authors has made about the world of women. This similarity is established through the numerous values in which both texts have used to allow audiences to compare the lives of women in the two completely different contexts. These values include: marriage, self-actualisation.
Among the feminist movements which emerged during the early nineteenth century, two of the most noteworthy are Fourier and the Saint-Simonians, in fact, Fourier has been credited with having originated the word “féministe” (Goldstein, 1982: 92). The Saint-Simonians, and the Fourierists, were writing and being read during a period of enormous social ferment, a period in which a very wide variety of feminist ideas were “in the air”. The attention that they devoted
Compare Wollstonecraft with Tweedy. Compare the ideas presented. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797; she was an 18th century writer. 20th and 21st century feminists saw Wollstonecraft as a key figure in the feminist tradition. Jill Tweedy 1932- 1993 was also an influential feminist writer.
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for writing off of life experiences. Many of her poems were written in away so that something related to her. Themes used throughout her poetry had a lot to do with women's place in American culture which she would somehow relate to her life. Some of her poems include “Daddy”, “The Dead”, April 18” and “The Bell Jar.” In 1982, Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for The Collected Poems. Plath also won a few other awards and prizes such as a scholarship for Cambridge University, first place in the Boston Globe contest, top prize in Atlantic Monthly Scholastic contest, and first place in the Mademoiselle Fiction Contest.
Hilda Doolittle History H.D (Hilda Doolittle) (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist best known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. The Imagist model was based on the idioms, rhythms and clarity of common speech, and freedom to choose subject matter as the writer saw fit. H.D. 's later writing devleoped on this aesthetic to incorporate a more female-centric version of modernism. H.D.
Feminism has been a cornerstone of literature for over a hundred years. Women in the world and in literature prior to late 19th century were portrayed as secondary citizens at best. In the late 19th century, a new movement was formed that took the ideals of the woman’s role in society and marriage and transformed them. Authors from the first and second wave of feminism have now created true portraits of women and their views on marriage. Generally speaking, the first and second waves of feminism are most recognized for their contributions to social and cultural equality.
1. Education Women's History Top of Form Search Bottom of Form * Women's History * Notable Women * Issues & Events * Women's Rights * * Share * Print Top of Form Free Women's History Newsletter!Sign Up Bottom of Form Discuss in my forum Alice Walker Writer and Activist By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide See More About: * alice walker * american women writers * feminists * american literature * african american women (Alice Walker) Image (c) 2007 Jone Johnson Lewis Alice Walker Facts: Known for: author of The Color Purple; Pulitzer Prize; recovering work of Zora Neale Hurston; work against female circumcision Occupation: writer, activist Dates: (February 9, 1944 - ) Alice Walker Biography: Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965. Alice Walker volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, and went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. Alice Walker married in 1967 (and divorced in 1976).
Biography of Kate Chopin Kate Chopin was a famous author during the late eighteen hundreds publishing many famous short stories and novels such as The Awakening and Bayou Folks. She has often been referred to as “a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity” (Seyersted 1). She led the way for feminism and was praised after her death once her style of writing became more accepted. Chopin wrote about the passion that other authors during her time would not dare to speak of. Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows.