Women's writing in English

Jackie Molloy Mrs. von Schiller English 11 Honors May 4 2015 Eudora Welty, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, successfully portrays a feminist perspective in a southern society through the role of the female protagonist Laurel by using imagery and symbolism to relate to the domain of women’s experiences in her last autobiographical novel, The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty encapsulates her feminine experiences through symbols and images. Welty’s last novel, is known to be one of her most…

two novels which Mitchell categorizes as influenced by the nineteenth-century English and American Romanticism trend of literature that both tell stories of black females and their experiences while attempting to attain freedom. Mitchell focuses on the differing intents and genders of each of the authors thus…

University's, English department. Professor Armbruster research interest are American Realism (1870-1920), American Domestic Architecture (especially late 19th/early 20th century) and Women’s Literature. Even though, I could have interviewed another professor from the English department which I don’t know, by conducting this interview I got to know more of Professor Armbruster. Also, I really owe her for motivating me to pursue a minor in English, because I never pictured myself taking English…

The canvas of the literary writing changed after the Second World War. The women writers such as Kamala Markendaya, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala and Shashi Deshpande took the pen in the field of social and artistic novels. These women writers focus on the issues such as socio-psychological conflict, multicultural elements and the individual identity of the period. The novelist show their prime concern on the depiction of the East-West conflict, disharmony between tradition and modernity, psychological…

This choreo poem fosters a community of African American women in their American society experiences through song, art, and dance. This is a choreopoem, that has a set of twenty separate poems that is choreographed to music about the women's experiences with love, empowerment, struggle and loss. A choreopoem is a term that was introduced, by the work, in 1975 by Ntozake Shange herself. A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. These complexes…

Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe written by Erin A. Sadlack “attempts to broaden the understanding of women’s paths to power in the sixteenth century.” Sadlack’s a credibility stems from her PhD in Medieval and British Literature. She is a professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, as well as Women’s studies. The biography discusses how Mary made political gains in the sixteenth century be it by…

bestselling novel during the 17th century. Mary’s writing style propelled this popular subject matter to heights by driving home the concept of colonial racial superiority. Her importance to history comes from the aftermath of King Philip’s War (aka Metacom’s Rebellion). It was the last known effort by indians to drive out the English helping to create a politically…

Mary Wollstonecraft was the first ever feminist in history. She would be the face of social equality for women. Through her impressive arguments and books based on women’s rights, her philosophy of social equality would be a start for not just equality and rights for men, but everyone, regardless of gender. Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher and writer. Her daughter was the author of the infamous Frankenstein books. Mary Wollstonecraft is to be considered a “ social equality,…

“Graduated cum laude from the University of Texas, with a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish. She also “Received writing awards from the English speaking Union, Colonial Dames of America, Texas Historical commission, Sons of the Republic of Texas, and San Antonio Conservation society.” Another outstanding fact about her is that she “Graduated with a 4.0 GPA from the University of Houston, with a master’s degree in English”. Also, she comes from several generations of Texans. The author…

of Men” which changed her, and some historians believe it brought her to meet Joseph Johnson. In 1778 Mary came back to London, and found work as a translator/ advisor to Joseph Johnson. Mr. Johnson unlocked many writing opportunities for Mary and, she contributed many of her writings…