V C Andrews Biography

It showed the narrators attempt to have normalcy and sanity during the time of being locked away. Her husband banned her from spending anytime doing anything active, but to her it’s a way to release her mind. When the women is caught writing in her notebook she has it taken away, but soon finds a way to sneak behind her husband’s back and secretly write. Too many people, writing can be therapeutic in which it allows them to ease feelings of emotional pain. During the time in 1892, women kept their thoughts to themselves, afraid that if they allowed someone else to know, that they would face “social discrimination”. When the notebook was taken away from the women, this made her have to tuck away her thoughts and it eventually led to

Abigail Adams learned how to read and write at home by her father, mother, and maternal grandmother, whom she adored. Her mother contributed to most of her education along with her sisters, during their younger years. Because her mother had a limited amount of education, Abigail taught herself to read (Holton, 6). When Abigail learned to read she couldn’t stop reading. Her father had many books at home that he had collected throughout the years. She devoured as many as she could, which lead her to be very well educated in many different areas. In the 1700s many girls unfaltering read fiction for entertainment. However, Abigail did not have frivolous taste in books. The books that she liked the most were Shakespeare, philosophy, theology, classical, ancient history, law, and government. She even taught herself different languages (Holton, 6). She also enjoyed writing letters to friends and family that lived far away, which was common amongst her peers. Her desire for writing led

Out of all writers, one stands out above the rest. Edgar Allen Poe is considered America's literary genius with his Gothic romantic poems and stories. Poe writes twisted, mysterious stories that shock the reader. He is considered to be a pioneer of many genres of literature. He is the father of gothic fiction to science fiction, with his creative plots and shifts in his stories. In most of Poe's stories and poems he uses unreliable or untrustworthy narrators to tell his stories. This was very different from the stories of this time, as Poe gave readers a break from romance stories that always had a happy ending. His use of unreliable narrators is what draws readers into his unique genre.

1. What piece of paper did the author’s mother carry for twenty years, and why did she carry it?

Racism had tainted her life from the very beginning. During her childhood she attended a one-room school for blacks only. She was only allowed to attend school for a short time due to the ailing health of

Although the Seminary was not considered a college when Jane enrolled, it was a respected institution that was mostly attended by white, Protestant, middle-class women. However, Jane could not fit into even those broad categories. She was constantly asked to declare her faith and pressured to become a foreign missionary. But Jane never could accept Christ’s divinity. Writing to Ellen Gates Starr, a religious friend she met at Rockford and a lifelong friend, she said of Jesus, "I think of him simply as a Jew living hundreds of years ago, surrounding whom there is a mystery (and) a beauty incomprehensible to me. I feel a little as I do when I hear very fine music – that I am incapable of understanding."

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1953. In 1970, Tan majored in English at San Jose State, in California. Tan began a carrier as a technical writer after she graduated, at the University of California. However, she changed her writing because she was inspired to write fiction book after reading of Louise Erdrich's novel “Love Medicine”. As a result of this, language has helped Amy Tan in becoming the successful writer she’s today. It helped her express her complete thoughts in a way that everyone who reads, understand. Additionally, the type of language that she uses in her writing makes people take her seriously and as important as everyone else.

After watching Jane’s interview I was ecstatic with my choice. She was born in New York City in 1939. Both of Jane’s parents were well-established writers, so it was only natural for her to follow in their footsteps. Jane has always enjoyed writing; she can still remember and site

 So much, in fact, was assigned to the woman’s role that today we can well believe that appropriate, wholesome, ‘safe’ reading-matter for the child was a boon to the mother. And into this breach, ready to fill the gap that had earlier existed in the field, when most children’s books were by English writers, came many American writers, largely from New England or the Middle Atlantic states, many of them themselves women and mothers.   The writers for these periodicals were in fact often anonymous, or signed themselves with initials or pseudonyms; Child, for example, usually signed herself ’Aunt Maria’. Editors, to fill

The motherly aspects stands out in her letters as she includes Miss Virginia in all her writings as if she was a child of her own. She is careful to send kind words of uplift to her Miss Virginia and never displays an ill tone when speaking about her masters. She is always protecting those leading those around her to compliant to the conditions in which they under. In an example of keeping things in the best of conditions as possible, she writes and tell her son to “be genteel as possible and to be kind to her masters and to take care of them (they are the best friends they have in the world) (Valentine 1837 #1). Many of these women were used as a means to keep the slavery institution alive for their masters. To these men, slave women were a necessity to the reproduction of lives and their labor which meant stability of livelihood for them.

At a young age she experienced her mother’s death but she didn’t let that take away from her focus on writing. Her most famous book was titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which Abraham Lincoln believed to be the start of the Civil war. Later in life she had married and had a son. Although she found it very hard to raise a son and still keep up on her daily writing she somehow managed. She managed to raise her son with the help of a friend and keep up on her

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar are best known for their collaborative explorations of women's literary tradition. They have co-authored The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman

“Andrews!” a burly man shouted over a walkie, frantically searching with his eyes around the warehouse.

Jane Austin is a great author from the 1800s. I really enjoyed the few books of hers, that I did get around to reading .I enjoyed the movie adaptions even more, Jane focused on things she thought about and used humor to point out the lives of the middle class, the wealthy, nobility, and families in different financial standings, battling to keep up or with their social status. Jane puts most of her focus and writing into the importance of marriage."

Du Maurier’s following novels, The Progress of Julius (1932), Jamaica Inn (1936), and Rebecca (1938) increased her success rabidly. Rebecca, in particular, made Du Maurier a brilliant name, especially after turning the novel into an Oscar-winning film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in 1940. 10 During the course of her career, Du Maurier wrote many novels, short stories, and plays, including: Frenchman’s Creek (1941), Hungry Hill (1943), “The Years Between” (1945), The Parasites (1949), My Cousin Rachel (1951), Mary Anne(1954), The Scapegoat (1957), The Glass Blowers (1963), The Flight of the Falcon (1965), The House on the Strand (1969), and