Edith Wharton's Writing Style

Woolf was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22Hyde Park Gate[ 5], Kensington. Her parents had each been married previously and been widowed, and, consequently, the household contained the children of three marriages. Julia had three children by her first husband, Herbert Duckworth: George, Stella, and Gerald Duckworth. Leslie had first married Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray (1840–1875), the daughter of William Thackeray[ 6], and they had one daughter: Laura Makepeace Stephen, who was declared mentally disabled[ 7] and lived with the family until she was institutionalised in 1891. Leslie and Julia had four children together: Vanessa Stephen (later known as Vanessa

Linda Pastan was a great poet while also a wife and mother. Pastan started sending her work to The New Yorker at age twelve (Potvin par. 6). Later, she went to college and got married. Pastan stated in an interview that she stopped writing for about ten years, because she could not be the perfect wife and mother that she was expected to be and also commit herself to her poetry (Brown, 3).

She too married out of fear of society. When she was 23, “old” by 1880s standards, she married a fellow member of the elite class; Edward Roberts Wharton. He was 13 years older than her and both agreed they were not suited for each other. After twenty-eight years of traveling, buying homes, and Edith writing they divorced. During their rocky marriage, Edith designed and built their home called The Mount.

She has already lost so much, more than a sixteen year old should. Her mom died of cancer, which left her in the mother role for her younger sisters. Soon after Ma died, her older brother Lawton left. When he left, she then became the oldest which put a lot more responsibilities on her. Mattie then gets accepted into Barnard, a college in New York City.

The way an author writes a work can mean the difference between interest or the lack of interest. When first reading “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” a reader may find the ending quite a shock. However, if another author would write the same plot, the shock may not exist, but, because of the many techniques displayed by Ambrose Bierce throughout his work, readers remain interested and shocked upon first reading the last line. Techniques Bierce display in his work, such as use of point of view, literary devices, and plot developments, prove useful throughout “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by peaking the reader’s interest and keeping him or her trying to guess what exactly happened. Bierce employs two forms of point of view throughout his work, third-person omniscient and third-person limited.

Although all her examples, evidence, and points make her writing more effective it also becomes problematic for other, unintended audience members, and to the way society might begin to portray Millennials. Tyler ends her article by stating that millennials are “intelligent, well-educated and quick to draw remarkably accurate conclusions,” (482) but when she uses words like “deal,” (482) and “prepare” (481) that have negative connotations, it alludes that we are a burden and that people need to be concerned. Not only does she mention Helicopter parents, but she also doesn’t hold the older generation accountable for raising millennials the way they did or still do. The article, although it is well written and makes many frank points that many of us do, becomes problematic when we consider that not all people are the same. Every person is an individual and unique, not only are people individuals, but also in this day and age many people, older and newer generations, do the things that we stereotypically do.

From examining the stories of influential women and the language used the audience receives an emotion of doubt and fear but in order to show that change can happen. Looking at the credibility of the authors and the site of publication the audience is able to trust the information being provided. Through the logos appeal, the audience is able to believe the argument presented with all the evidence provides from professors to companies. In the end, women should take away the idea that they should not doubt themselves and just go for the

James Mercer Langston Hughes, better known as Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent authors in during the Harlem Renaissance. He was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri to Carrie Langston and James Hughes, who both separated shortly after his birth. Hughes lived with his maternal grandmother, Mary, until thirteen when she died. He then moved in with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio. This is when he started writing poetry.

Charlotte Bronte, one of the most famous writers of the nineteenth century, was born on March 31, 1816. She was born in the city of Yorkshire, England and in 1820 moved to Haworth.Charlotte had a total of eight people in her family. She had five sisters, one brother, mom, and dad. Bronte’s father, Reverend Patrick Bronte, came from a poor Irish family. Luckily for him, he immigrated to England where he studied at Cambridge university.

At a young age, mid-twentieth-century poet Adrienne Rich was exposed to her father 's extensive library; thus, she became highly developed and educated throughout her tender years before and during her time spent in college. Her intellect, spirit for a purposeful life, and potential were highly cultivated. After marrying, Rich bore three children and found herself trapped in traditional female duties that stunted her creativity. In 1966, Rich and her family moved to New York where she became a civil rights activist and a radical feminist. A few years later, Rich and her husband separated and she spent much of her time working for the feminist wave of the 70s.

In 1835 I became the editor for the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. I was known mostly for my harsh critic. I married Virginia while she was only the age of thirteen, we did not have any children but she died at the age of 24. She died of the wretched disease that stole my mother and brother away from me. After her death I began to write more poems and short stories, like “the Tale-Tell heart”, “The Raven”, and “the Masque of The Red Death”.

Though many of the Interior Decorators I will be talking about in this paper are dead now, many of them remain big icons in the architecture and interior design field to this day. Elsie de Wolfe, whom is still revered as America’s first decorator to this day. Eleanor McMillen Brown, a pioneer in the interior design field and founder of McMillen Inc.. Dorothy Draper, the first to “professionalize” the interior design industry by establishing the first interior design company in the United States. Elsie de Wolfe was an American decorator born in New York City. Besides being an interior decorator she was also a professional actress that performed various light comic and historical roles throughout the 1890s.

Walker died of hypertension on May 25, 1919, at age 51, at the estate home she had built for herself in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. At the time of her death, Walker was sole owner of her business, which was valued at more than $1 million. Today, Walker is widely credited as one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire. When she died, she left ⅓ of her estate to her daughter, A 'Lelia Walker, who would also become well-known as an important part of the cultural Harlem

Journalist, producer and author, Barbara Jill Walters, came into the world on September 25, 1929. Her father, Louis Walters, worked as the owner of the Latin Quarter nightclubs and as a booking agent, which allowed Barbara to associate with celebrities from a young age. She later claimed that this was how she became comfortable talking with famous individuals as a journalist. Her mother, Dena Walters, was a homemaker who raised Barbara along with her two siblings: Jacqueline and Burton. Jacqueline was born mentally disabled and died in 1985 from ovarian cancer.

Mary Shelley had been made a widow, which was caused by the drowning of her dear husband Percy Shelley (wiki). Mary had to work hard to provide for her son and herself. She wrote a couple more novels and made sure her late husbands literary works were placed in literary history, as where they should. She also had some struggle with late Percy Shelley’s father, he never really approved of his lifestyle. Mary Shelley died of brain cancer, February in 1851.