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Emily Dickenson Pearl S Buck

Harriet Beacher Stowe

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Emily Dickenson: Early American Poet

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Born: December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts.Childhood Home:Education: Amherst Academy.Profession: PoetBeginning of her writing profession: when she was a teenagerMarital Status: NoneInteresting Fact: frequently ill and depressed throughout her life.Famous writings: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Died: May 15, 1886 of kidney disease

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Emily Dickenson’s Early Life

• Born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts

• Born into a prominent, but not wealthy, family• Described her mother as cold and aloof• Studied at a former boy’s school, Amherst, which had

opened its door to girls just two years before• August 10, 1847, Dickinson began attending

Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary • She was always sick and it was hard for her to make

friends. She eventually dropped out• She never got married• She stayed behind closed doors and became a

recluse

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Emily Dickenson’s Writing Career

• The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955.

• Her poetry was heavily influenced by her very religious background in Puritan New England

• She was inspired by Charles Wadsworth and knew him as a very dear friend

• Her poetry was not discovered until after she died• Some writers have discovered a thematic theme to her writing• She never married• She died in Amherst in 1886. -

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"If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me."-Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death

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Pearl S Buck: Early American Author

Pearl S. Buck Writing Career

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Born: June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia.

Childhood Home: China

Education: Randolph-Macon Woman's College in

Lynchburg, Virginia

Profession: Writer

Beginning of her writing profession: She started

writing in hopes of earning a better living.

Marital Status: Richard Walsh (1935 - 1960) ·

John Lossing Buck (1917 - 1935)

Interesting Fact: She spent much of her life in China

Famous writings: The Good Earth

Died: March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont

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Pear S. Buck’s Early Life

• Born on June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia. • She studied philosophy at Randolph-Macon

Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.• Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries in

China• Her parents returned to China when she was 4

months old• She was homeschooled by her mother for part of

the day and a private Chinese language tutor the other part of the day

• Buck decided to attend boarding school in Shanghai in 1907 and graduated in 1909

• She returned back to the states in 1910 to start her studies in philosophy

• She returned to China to take care of her ill mother

• She was married to John Lossing Buck in 1917 and divorced him in 1935

• She married Richard Walsh in 1935 Pearl S Buck Home

"One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful."-Pearl S. Buck from A Bridge for Passing

The Good Earth,

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Pearl S. Buck Writing Career

Pearl Buck began to write in the twenties. These are some of the earliest and most honored titles. East Wind, West Wind, in 1930. The Good Earth (1931) (Won the Pulitzer Prize)Sons (1932), and A House Divided (1935), together forming a trilogy on the saga of the family of Wang. The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), All Men are Brothers (a translation of the Chinese novel Shui Hu Chuan) (1933), The Mother (1934)This Proud Heart (1938)The Time Is Now, a fictionalized account of the author's emotional experiences, although written much earlier, did not appear in print until 1967. Pearl S Buck Home

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Early American Novelist

Harriet Beecher StoweWriting Career

Born: June 14, 1811, in Litchfield,

Connecticut.

Childhood Home: Litchfield, Connecticut

Education: Traditional course lf learning

usually followed by young men (seminary)

Profession: Literary Writer

Beginning of her writing profession: 1851

Marital Status: Calvin Ellis Stowe

Interesting Fact: Her emotional writings

about the impact of slavery captured the

nation’s attention

Famous writings: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Died: July 1, 1896, in Hartford, Connecticut

at the age of 87.

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.Old Town Folks, 1869

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Early Life

Harriet Beacher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut.

She followed the the traditional course of classical learning usually reserved for young men.

Her father was a well know Calvinist preacher

He preached against slavery in the 1820s She became an assistant teacher at the

school run by her sister Catharine Her mother died when she was three and

her father remarried when she was six years old.

She wrote because she wanted to express her feelings through a literary representation of slavery.

All of her brothers and sisters became educators and were very involved in public affairs

Her brothers became clergymen Her emotional portrayal of the impact of

slavery, particularly on families and children, captured the nation's attention.

She died on July 1, 1896, in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 87.

Her husband Calvin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Writing Career

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that brought her to the top and made her famous. It also brought her financial security allowing her to write the following books.

• Primary Geography for Children (1833) Her sympathetic approach to Catholicism

• New England Sketches (1835), a short story collection

• The Mayflower: Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the Descendants of the Pilgrims.(1843)

• "The Coral Ring" (1843) a short story which promoted temperance, and an anti-slavery tract.

• Numerous articles, essays and short stories regularly published in newspapers and journals

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References - Emily Dickenson

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Emily Dickenson Information. Retrieved March 4, 2014, fromhttp://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

References - Pearl S Buck

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References- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe Photos. Bing images. Retrieved March 6, 2014Photo of the book Uncle Toms CabinHarriet Beecher Stowes Family Pictures

Harriet Beecher Stowe Information. Retrieved March 6, 2014, http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/http://www.historynet.com/harriet-beecher-stowehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe