20th-century women writers

Both international and domestic events have had a colossal impact on the American identity in the first half of the 20th century. During the late 1800’s, the country was divided. America came out of the bloody Civil War in 1864 (Taylor). During his second inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln urged his country towards peace when he said, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us…bind up the nation’s wounds…care for him who shall have borne the battle…” Sadly, Lincoln’s wish for peace did not happen. In fact, the next ten years were filled with the bloody violence of reconstruction. Even after the period of reconstruction ended, America was still torn apart by racism.…

Sanger, Margaret. “Woman and the New Morality.” Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentano’s, 1920. Bartleby. Web. 23 Oct. 2015. The book titled Women and the New Morality was written by Margaret Sanger. She lived in the Roaring Twenties. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, Social Reformer and a nurse. In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Also, Sanger wrote multiple books…

The 20th century held many challenges and endeavours. From World War I to the Vietnam War it was a time of hostility and violence. Despite these hardships, the 20th century also made it possible for some of the most important events that changed the world. Without the invention of the television or the cell phone, where would the world be today? All these changes from an old world to a new world gave the opportunity for literature to blossom. Many 20th century writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald…

As a preface to her Letters to Mothers (1838), well-known writer Lydia Sigourney exclaimed, “Does not the whole heart blossom thick with perpetual dew-drops? What a loss, had we passed through the world, without tasting this purest, most exquisite front of love.” In her wondering, Sigourney described the overwhelming feelings elicited in women as they became mothers. Though she explains the new role of love in child rearing of the 19th century, Sigourney’s excerpt is just one example of the…

Feminism: Equality between Different Genders The feminist movement started in the United States by Alice Paul. Feminism was not founded until the 20th century, it is defined to be “the theory of the political and social equality of the sexes.” The feminist movement was a social and political movement that fought to establish equality for women. In the early 20th Century suffrage was still an issue. Therefore, women began participating more in public. This was the beginning for women to have the…

government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New Yorker. Shortly after being hired, Kincaid published her first piece, “Girl,” in which a girl is given advice about how to act, dress, and work to ensure the girl is not viewed as a poor mother and husband. The topics addressed in this short story reflect…

Henry Chang Literary themes 10/11/15 The Big Era of Writing During the 1970’s, writing was so popular that it was the main priority for people around the world. By the time the 21st century was reached, writing became a recessive priority due to the fact that new technologies are developed for people to use. Explanations why the writing was so popular back then is that they were so many events that happened around the world, people wanted to talk about it. Another factor that occurred was that…

Susan B. Anthony, a 19th and early 20th century leader of of the women’s rights movement (1848-1920) declared, “We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all civil and political rights that belong to the citizens of the United States be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” During the early twentieth century there were factions pursuing to change the male face of the workplace and misogynistic ideals. Skilled pioneering women spread their thoughts like wildfire through literature and…

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the major themes of the world were conquest, revolt, and nationalism. Benefiting from the Enlightenment, the enlightened Europeans turned to be “the most powerful, most innovative, most prosperous, most expansive, and most widely imitated people on the planet” (Strayer, 775). They were a global dominance and exercised enormous power over the rest of humankind. After resisting to Europeans’ conquest, colonial Asians and Africans started to seek their…

becoming that fish that does ‘discover’ the water that surround me in a socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never before heard outside the context of my immediate family. Passed down from generations matrilineally: Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Mother alike have recited two distinct Irish rooted limericks and poems to me through the course of my life. As my great grandmother passed, G.G. (my mom’s Mother) and Jamie (my mom), continued the tradition at every…