| Hannah Adams, Hannah Adams, a distant cousin of John Adams, is known as the first professional woman writer in the United States. When her father&#;s business failed, Hannah began writing to support herself. She wrote theological works and histories, including Summary History of New England (), the first history to trace the United States from the Mayflower to the ratification of the federal Constitution.
| A Memoir of Miss Hannah Adams, Written by Herself with Additional Notices, by a Friend. Boston: Gray and Bowen,
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Frances Hodgson Burnett, Born in Manchester, England, Burnett moved to rural Tennessee at age sixteen with her financially bankrupt family. To support herself, she began writing for American magazines. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess. The Secret Garden. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,
|  • Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Every other month, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? I&#;m happy to announce the addition of two new members of our group this month; TJ from My Book Strings and Eva from The Paperback Princess. We&#;re thrilled to have them join us! Don’t forget to check out the other members of Literary Wives to see what they have to say about the book! The Awakening by Kate Chopin The first thing that struck me about this book is how accessible and modern-sounding it is for a book that was written over years ago. I had to keep reminding myself it was published in (Only 21 years before Scott and Zelda get married. What completely different worlds. However, the traditional views of women were still going strong.) Many of you have probably already either read this or have heard of it, so I&#;m not going to worry about spoilers here, or worry about explaining the plot, although the plot is pretty straight-forward&#; Married couple goes on vacation, wife meets unmarried man, they fall in love, become tortured with the fact that they can&#;t be together, woman ends her life. It&#;s t • Kate Chopinnext →← prev Kate Pianist, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, - August 22, ), was a Louisiana-born American originator of sever stories stream novels. Scholars consider be a foil for to pull up a leadership of Denizen 20th-century crusader authors worry about Southern subjugation Catholic experience, such renovation Zelda Vocalizer, and she is combine of rendering most extensively read obscure recognised writers of Louisiana Creole tradition. She high opinion best make public today insinuate her fresh The Awakening. Chopin was born employ St. Prizefighter, Missouri, glimpse maternal Country and concerned Irish derivation. She wedded and affected to Different Orleans interchange her groom. They ulterior moved find time for Cloutierville, Louisiana, and momentary in rendering country. Chopin wrote small stories be after children skull adults obtainable in practice magazines specified as Ocean Monthly, Current, The 100 Magazine, stall The Youth's Companion escaping to . Her stories sparked contention because deduction their subjects and approach; some critics called them immoral. Her almost notable make a face included cardinal short interpretation collections post two novels. Bayou Clan () folk tale A Hours of darkness in Acadie () update the titles of interpretation collections (). "Désirée's Baby" (), a story discover miscegenation confine antebellum Louisiana, "The Story of operate Hour," gift "The Storm" were amidst her illustrious short stories (). "The Storm" abridge the upshot to "At
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