Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in the year 1900 to an upper-middle class family of Georgia. She was a bit of a rebel, no doubt the result of a suffragist mother and an attorney father. This tomboyish behavior of her young self matches that of the main character of her novel, Scarlett O’Hara. As she grew up, she was surrounded by stories of the Civil War as told by her ancestors. This inspired her setting of the Civil War for Gone With the Wind. Her major interest began under the advisement of her beloved English teacher Eva Paisley. While in Paisley’s class, Mitchell wrote her first attempt at a novel titled The Big Four, which was about a group of four girls at a boarding school. Her main character, named Margaret, was an extremely brave and headstrong character that saved her friends from all kinds of things from fires to ruining of a girl’s father. While most who read young Mitchell’s work loved it, she …show more content…
Her first pieces were little things, silly things to her. She soon got permission to write a feature on famous women in history. Of the four-part series she had been given permission to do, only one of those ever got published, one that featured women who certainly did not fit the standards that women were to meet in that time period. The Journal and Mitchell were disgraced after the publication of this article, and as a result, she wrote the same light articles she had before. Her real break in journalism came when she was asked to write about two Confederate generals that were to be featured on Stone Mountain, which was under construction at the time. Her account was so phenomenal that the series was extended so that she could write about each of the other generals to be carved into the mountain. Her news writing career was soon over, for her ankle was injured soon after, preventing her from sitting at a typewriter. After her recovery, Mitchell tried her hand once again at writing a
In the movie Gone With the Wind, Scarlett, the main character was a woman with many struggles in her life. She lived on a farm with her father, her mother, and her slaves but when she left to go help the wounded, the Yankees came to her house and used it as a base camp. The Yankees took all of Scarlett?s family?s food, crops, and animals. Also while Scarlett was gone her mother got sick. Once Scarlett came back to her farm (Terra) her mother was dead. When the war ended her family was too poor to pay the taxes so she married Frank, a rich businessman, so she could pay the taxes. After her husband died she remarried a richer man named Rhett and they had a child named Bonnie.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Mary Wade, born on the 5th of October 1777 was the youngest convict to be sent to Australia. Before her life as a convict, she would sweep and beg on the streets of London to make her living.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Katherine Johnson is a memorable African American mathematician and an icon for young black girls around the world. Katherine Johnson loved math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth, and then she helped put a man on the moon.
The water that Molly and the other women carried was used for drinking water by the soldiers and to cool down the cannon barrels. The water was also used to soak the ramrod sponge which was used to clean the barrel after each shot.
Margaret had huge dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly passed away in 1835. At this time, her mother was also sick and it became her responsibility to take care of her family’s finances. There were not many job opportunities available to women during this time, she found a teaching job and accepted the position. She first began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston and taught there until she went on to teach at the well-kn...
Shirley Jackson was an extremely well liked American author during the 1900s. However, in recent years literary critics, as well as the education system have increasingly begun to admire her. Many of her works are being read and analyzed by high school students all over the country. Jackson’s life led her to become the accomplished, prized writer, she grew to be.
Anne Sullivan was born on Saturday, April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Anne grew up in a poor household with her two other siblings and her mother and father. . When Anne was only five years of age, she contracted trachoma, an eye disease. Her mother, Alice, suffered from tuberculosis and unfortunately died when Anne was eight years old. Her abusive father, Thomas, left Anne and her siblings after the death of his wife, thus leaving forcing Anne and one of her brothers to Tewksbury Almshouse. Tewksbury Almshouse was very run down and dirty which eventually led to Anne brother’s death a few months after their arrival. While Anne was at Tewksbury, she gained an interest in schools for the blind and was persistent in gaining an education
Millay was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland Maine. She was the daughter of Henry Tollman and Cora Buzzle. Cora Millay divorced her husband in 1990 due financial irresponsibility and moved Millay and her younger sisters to Camden Maine (Bio. A&E Television Networks). Millay’s mother had encouraged her daughters to value literature, which sparked Millay’s love for writing. Millay had originally wanted to be a concert pianist, but due to her small hands her piano instructor discouraged her from pursing the career (Bio. A&E Television Networks). So instead she pursued a career in writing. Millay attended public high school where she held the position of editor in chief of her school’s magazine (Bio. A&E Television Networks). Her first great poem was Renascence, was published in the anthology he Lyric Year in
Born in Rockland, Maine in the year 1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay was the daughter of Cora Buzzelle Millay and Henry Tolman Millay. Millays parents divorced when she was 8 and she was raised by her mother who inspired many of her works. Millay was a very independent child and published poetry by the time she was a teen. Millay had gained recognition as a poet and writer by her mid-twenties. She wrote poems about love, sorrow, death, and everlasting nature. Millay also completed many plays and short fiction works underneath the name Nancy Boyd. As Millay got older she married a man named Eugene Jan Boissevain in 1923. She had devoted a sonnet in memory of his first wife who was also an idol of Millays. Millay had an open marriage and many sexual partners.
The story Little Women takes place at a time when women were taking on uncustomary roles like physical laborer, family protector and provider, and military volunteer while their husbands served during the Civil War. Keeping within the boundaries of the time, Louisa May Alcott uses herself and her own three sisters to create this classical novel from personal experiences. Each sister is different. They each set goals and dreams for their selves whether it goes along with their contemporary society or not. With the assistance of their mother, friends and experiences, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy struggle between their personal expectations and society’s expectations as they plan for their future and choose their destinies.
She told her publisher, John Blackwood, in January 1861 about her idea of writing the novel. She wrote that it was “a story of old-fashioned village life, which has unfolded itself from the merest millet seed of thought” (Modern Library).