Elizabeth Bishop Was An Only Child

Elizabeth or Beth, as known by many, was born July 29, 1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. (Beth Short). Elizabeth was the daughter of Cleo and Phoebe Short. (Beth Short). In 1929, Beth’s father Cleo disappeared, and his truck was found near a bridge, convincing people that he had committed suicide. (Beth

Julia Alvarez is an acclaimed American-Dominican poet and author. She has written many successful books and poems, many of which reflect directly on her life and personal experiences. Because of Alvarez’s American-Dominican background, her poems display diverse, cultural themes. These include what it is like to be American and Dominican and the struggles of moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Alvarez has received praise for her ability to write a wide variety of styles, including poems, children's books, young adult novels, and essays. Her success, however, has come from her poetry collections, like Homecoming. These collections show her life in the Dominican Republic and her transition to the United States.

Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born August 28, 1774, in New York City to the wealthy and popular couple Dr. Richard Bayley and Catherine Charlton. Both the Bayley and Charlton side of her ancestry was very interesting, as both families were some of the first European settlers in America. At the tender age of three, Elizabeth lost her mother to what is now believed issues from birth. A gaping hole was left in the family, and in an attempt to fix it, Richard Bayley soon remarried Amelia Barclay, attempting to bring back some normalcy to the young

Elizabeth Blackwell had to overcome many obstacles to obtain her medical degree. In a time when education was not open to women, she had to fight against discrimination and hardships to gain admissions into medical school. Elizabeth Blackwell was a very determined woman and overcame the obstacles that she faced through school and afterward as she attempted to find a place to practice medicine. Dr. Blackwell also had an enormous impact on the poor in New York City and was a strong advocate for women entering the medical profession. She remained a supporter for education of women through her life.

She had told her parents that she was going out to check the tennis schedules at school, the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. Elizabeth never came back. Her car was eventually recovered, and forensic tests revealed that blood on the back seat was hers. Elizabeth’s body has never been found.

She would soon face homesickness, alienation, and prejudice. She missed her cousins, her family's large home, and the respect her family name demanded in the Dominican Republic”. "Julia Alvarez." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2004, pp. 185-187. Gale Virtual Reference Library, Alvarez, her parents, and her sisters squashed themselves and their property into their small apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Alvarez became a committed reader who loved to read, spending all of her free time with books and writing. Alvarez went on to college she earned her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, and she went on to receive her master's degree in creative writing at Syracuse University. “She became an English professor at

“When I first met the fool he offered me a rose and I declined. I told him, ‘I don’t know you, why would accept a flower from a man I just met?’ He laughed and stubbornly continued his flirtations. I accepted his affection after a while and eventually married this foolish man, but I kept my last name (Cardona)”. After her marriage in April 13, 2028, she eventually moved to Nantes,France to live closer to her husband. A year later, her first daughter, Imogen Mina Cardona, was born. After her daughter's birth she dabbled in hobbies like collecting jars and she also began to work on her poems and other literary works including “Starry Night and Pluto’s sadness” and “The Hopeless Void of Humanity”. One of her works, “Petty Life”, would eventually win her the Nobel Prize of Literature in May 30, 2035. A year later, she had her twins, Carlos Pollux Cardona and Declan Castor Cardona. And a year after that Ave and her adopted their daughter, Theodosia Cardona. She would continue working and living in Nantes, France for fifteen more years. “The years I spent with my family were truly amazing and I don’t think I’ll ever experience anything more beautiful than that

Gwendolyn brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas. Her family moved to Chicago during the great migration when Brooks was six weeks old. Her first poem was published when she was 13 and at the age of 17, she already had a series of poems published in the poetry column “Lights and shadows” in the Chicago defender newspaper. . After working for The NAACP, she began to write poems that focus on urban poor blacks. Those poems were later published as a collection in 1945. The collection was titled A Street in Bronzeville. A street in bronzeville received critical acclaim but it was her next work, Annie Allen, that was got her the Pulitzer Prize. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000 at age of 83.

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England on February 3, 1821 to Samuel Blackwell, a sugar refiner, and Hannah Lane. Elizabeth lived with her two older sisters and six younger siblings (including Emily Blackwell, the third woman in the U.S. to get a medical degree), and four maiden aunts, Barbara, Ann, Lucy, and Mary. When she was 11, Elizabeth and her family moved to the U.S. After her father’s death in 1838, along with her mother and sister, she opened a school. Even though through her childhood her family struggled with poverty her childhood is remembered to be a happy one and she stayed close to her family even as she grew up. At first, Elizabeth was repealed by the idea of a medical career but decided to go into

One of her stories “And Summer Will NOT Come Again” was published in Seventeen magazine when she was in high school and her poem, Bitter Strawberries, was published in “Christian Science Monitor”. (source 2) In 1950, she received a scholarship to Smith college. She won a position as guest editor of “Mademoiselle” when she was at the end of her junior year. (source 2) Even

” The influences of the religious teaching that she received from her parents in her early childhood shaped the lifestyle, which she led up until her death. Elizabeth describes her father reading to her on the Sabbath day and remarks that she “Felt the overshadowing of the lords spirit .” At one point in her life, when she was around twelve she became so ill that she assumed she would die, and during this time vividly hallucinated that Jesus came to her. This sparked her to become even more religious than she had been in the past, and prompted her to continue a lifestyle of prayer and intense religious devotion despite living in a place where most people did not pray, and where she was often mocked for the amount of prayer that she preformed. This influence of religion in her early life proves that there were some serious discrepancies in how religion was viewed from plantation to plantation. Elizabeth’s early childhood was filled with religion, mainly thanks to the teaching of her parents, and on that particular plantation it was not considered odd, yet on the next plantation that Elizabeth lived on there was no religion and she was openly mocked for being religious.

She has turned 80 earlier this year and has won not one but two lifetime achievement awards. In April 2008, she was receved the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction and the PEN/Nabakov Award for

Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace in England to King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn on September 7th, 1533. Less than three years later, Anne Boleyn was arrested, charged, and executed because she could not bear Henry a son. Twelve days later, Henry married Jane Seymour, and she gave birth to Prince Edward, the long awaited male heir, in October of 1537. However, Jane shortly died of childbed fever. Elizabeth’s father married three more times, but it was Catherine Parr, Henry’s sixth and final wife, who had the greatest

American poet and short story writer Elizabeth Bishop lived between February 8, 1911- October 6, 1979. She won many awards such as The Pulitzer Prize, The National Book award, and The Neustadt International Prize for literature in 1976. Bishop was said to work obsessively on her poems and would spend years perfecting them. Two out of the many poems she wrote were “One Art”( a poem about a woman who says we can master the art of losing), and “The Waiting Room” (A speaker describing her experience as a young girl reading the National Geographic magazine, taking place on February 1918). Elizabeth implicitly used the two poems to demonstrate how people are connected through their own vulnerability.

These strong, and independent African women authors use insightful and educational language, which invites the western world to be a part of their world through the power of literature. One of the