Women's writing in English

Emma Lazarus began writing poetry at a young age, but of all her poems, the most popular one is, “The New Colossus.” In her poem, she discusses the differences between the Ancient World and America. She mentions a lady of liberty, “From her beacon-hand/ Glows world-wide welcome,” signifying that there should be a woman figure as the first thing immigrants will see when they make their journey to America showing that at last, they have reached freedom. This poem is embossed at the bottom of the…

The French Revolution was a period of social and political upheaval that occurred in France from 1789-1799. The revolution itself drew inspiration from liberal and radical ideas of the era and was inspired by other uprisings like the American Revolution that occurred in 1776. The revolution had a dramatic impact on the country of France and an even bigger impact on the continent of Europe as a whole, ending the monarchy in France and establishing a secular government in its place. The…

My private school was predominately black including the teachers and staff. I learned English just like all the other children at my school but we all didn’t talk the same. Even my cousins, who went to the same school, sounded different. When we are all together with our parents and grandparents, I notice that most of them talked with an Ebonics…

it caused the complete eradication of entire cultures, leaving behind only watered-down European, Christian values forced upon them by England. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak highlights this issue in terms of “feminist individualism” in her writing: “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”, published by The University of Chicago Press (Spivak 244). She uses three texts written by women in order to provide meaning to the points she makes, she uses: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wide…

it is said CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, which especially focuses on working alongside poor women. Even though the world has been changed a lot, people gradually find more problems need to solve, like poor women’s right. “I am powerful” is such an advertisement made by CARE to address and to make people take the responsibility for fixing this problem. Using "seeds" as the implication of a dream, CARE in this advertisement consistently convinces the public…

Another example of women who defied female expectations are the Brontë sisters. Living in 19th century England, each sister found fame for their literature, but under male pseudonyms. The Brontë sisters were the first English writers to break female literary stereotypes and write women as their own individuals, who possessed a sense of morality and responsibility. For these women to find fame at this time, even under male pseudonyms, is extraordinary. These women used…

Events in his life even inspired the novel. Twenty-nine years later, he received a Nobel Peace Prize for Lord of the Flies. William Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England. His mother was a suffragette who had fought for women’s right to vote. As a child, Golding went to Marlborough grammar school,…

In the beginning, Plath’s writing style was quite different from the end of her career. However, as Plath’s personality changed, so did her style of writing. At first she strived to be both brilliant and friendly, her writing style was described as “pretty”; as she became more obsessed with perfection, her style shifted to depressing and mysterious. Plath wrote pieces that would impress women’s magazines, though she received many rejections for her work (Steinberg…

She responded by calling for scholars to bring race into their work. In Higginbotham’s “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” she argues that race is both a “decentered complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle” and a “metalanguage” that is powerful, all-encompassing effect on the construction and…

The role of women in society is, to this day, ever changing in England. Women are not proportionately represented in the media, now, or in early English eras such as the Medieval Times. In early English literature, there was not a single female author to be published until the fifteenth century. This can partially explain the beginning of women’s oppression, as it stemmed from a lack of representation. Today, women are still underrepresented in the media, but not to the same degree as during the…