Mary Pope Osborne Mary Pope Osborne is a well known author that is still alive today writing stories for many of her devoted fans. She was born on May 20, 1949 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. She was the first child in a family of four children. Her family moved a lot due to her father’s job but Osborne was used to a sudden change in environment. Her exposure to many different places influenced her writing (Osborne 2). Osborne’s father was a colonel in the U.S. Army and the family moved often because of his job. By the age of fifteen, her family had lived in Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. They even lived in Salzburg, Austria. All these places would influence Osborne in her writing. Even though they moved a lot, the family had a strong family bond. Osborn was especially close to her brothers (“Meet”). Wheeler states, “One day when she was visiting a musical about Jesse James …show more content…
In high school she was interested in theater and that drive continued into college. As a junior she became interested in mythology and world religions. In 1971, she graduated with a degree in religion. Osborne says,“After college, she didn’t know what to do, so she decided to join a small European band”(Osborne 1). The many places they traveled together including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,Pakistan, India, and Nepal, all are settings that she uses in her books later on when she becomes an author. When Osborne wasn’t on tour with her husband, she worked many part time jobs including waitressing, acting teacher, and an editor for Scholastic magazine. Then one day,out of the blue, she started writing about an eleven year old girl in the South. Osborne thought her work wasn’t worthy but the editors thought different because shortly after it became a novel called Run, Run, and Fast as You Can. Finally, she decided what she wanted to do when she grew up, become a writer
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation. Surratt worked briefly in Virginia as a railroad contractor before he was able to purchase land in Maryland and eventually establish a store and tavern that became known as Surrattsville. However, the family’s fina...
O’Connor became an editor of the Corinthian, a literary magazine at Georgia State College for Women. There she wrote and submitted fiction essays and some poems which drew a good bit of attention. O’Connor, a social science major began to write. After attending college
Flannery O’Connor, was born Mary Flannery O’Connor in 1925 in Savannah Georgia. She graduated from Women's College of Georgia in 1945, and received her master’s degree from Iowa State University in 1947. According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, she suffered from lupus, and before dying in 1964, she spent the last ten years of her life as an invalid writing and raising peacocks on her mother’s farm in Georgia. Interestingly, the characters in her stories are often referred to as grotesque, however, as the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia states, “[h]er characters, although often deformed in both body and spirit, are impelled toward redemption,” (Columbia Electronic Encycl...
Mary Tudor or Queen Mary I of England was infamously known as Bloody Mary. While many believe Bloody Mary was an evil monster, others believe she was a great queen because of her many accomplishments. Mary was actually a good devoted Catholic others still to this day believe she was an evil woman, but with these interesting facts it will be determined that Mary was a good queen.
Elizabeth Bishop was a poet in the twentieth century. She was born in 1911 and lived until she
Throughout One Writer’s Beginnings and Superman and Me, both Eudora Welty and Sherman Alexie gained their love for books at a very young age. Every kid growing up looks to their parents for guidance and ends up inheriting many of their traits while growing up. Eudora Welty’s mom
Mary Cassatt had a wonderful childhood filled with travel and a good education. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born in Allegheny Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh on May 22, 1885 (Encyclopedia of World Biography 2). She was one of seven children, two of which did not make it past infancy (Creative Commons License 3). Her childhood was spent moving throughout Germany and France, (Creative Commons License 4) until her family moved back to Pennsylvania, then continued moving eastward to Lancaster and then to Philadelphia (Creative Commons License 3), where Cassatt started school at age six (Creative Commons License 3). Then continued her schooling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York, Joyce Carol Oates developed a love for writing as a child and went on to become an acclaimed, best-selling scribe known for her novels, stories, poetry and essays, winning the National Book Award for in 1969. Her other notable works include “A Garden of Earthly Delights”, “We Were the
Many novelists base their books on real life experiences and in Mary Shelley’s case, it is no different. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born on August 30, 1797. At a young age, she was exposed to her father’s library of English authors and listened in on her father’s educational discussions with his friends. She never went to school, but was home schooled so this was one of the ways she learned. Her father owned a publishing company so, at a young of 13, she published her first work, Mounseer Nongtongspaw, which is a verse poem. She never knew her biological mother and hated her stepmother because she was the exact opposite of her real mother. As a result of this hatred, she was sent to Dundee by her father and when she returned to London, she was introduced to her future husband, Percy Bisshe Shelley. After meeting for the first time in 1812 at a dinner hosted by her parents, they did not see each other again until 1814 when they became very close. Mary’s father did not support the couple at first and tried to separate them . They were atheists and found themselves in controversial situations because of this and their political beliefs . After several disputes between the couple and family, Mary and Percy departed on a trip to Switzerland and France to escape. They began to discuss ideas on this trip and Mary used her hectic experiences to write her stories (Means 2).
Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the penname George Elliot, was born on the twenty-second of November, 1819, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. A prominent Victorian novelist, she wrote many major works such as: The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Mary Ann Evans was the third child of Robert Evans (1773–1849) and Christiana Evans (1788–1836)...
Her books are all dedicated to her mother, "DEAR MAMA," "To My Mother," "To my mother." Her poems are the only chronicles I have of her life. In the second book we learn that she started writing it in the winter of 1968 in New York and finished it in Winnipeg in September 1971. Her third book is begun in Berlin that same year and finishes in France, in between she continues in Hebrides, Singapore, Steglitz, Meylan, Budapest, Iona, Cracow, Prague, Poland, Malaysia, Paris.
When she between the age of eight and nine years old she decided she wanted to write novels. In the year of 1958 she graduated from
In this paper I will talk about some information that I have obtained from reading Mary Piphers, Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and give my view on some of her main points and arguments. I also will discuss why I feel Mary Pipher’s views on the toxic influence of media are accurate, and that it does affect adolescent girls. This paper will also point out the importance of Mary Pipher’s studies on the problems that today’s female teens are facing and why I feel they are important and cannot be ignored.
Education, as defined by female authors of the 1700s, is a privilege often awarded to young male individuals and neglected to all female individuals due to the specific social expectations of both men and women of the time period. While some women chose to accept these sexist expectations and continue living within such social boundaries, others became ambassadors of a movement to equalize education and break social norms throughout both genders. Author Mary Wollstonecraft expressed her exasperation with the absence of education standards for women by explaining how men viewed women as less than human:
The Catholic Church going to the peripheries is very important. Luckily, there are many historical Catholics that went to the periphery, but one that really stands out to me is Mother Teresa. When Mother Teresa went to India with the Sisters of Loreto she taught girls at Saint Mary’s High School. Lots of these girls did not come from lots of wealth and were raised in poverty. Mother Teresa wanted to help the girls forget they were poor through education. When she was teaching at Saint Mary’s High School Mother Teresa eventually became principal of the High School. While Mother Teresa was teaching there she stayed fully devoted to her students the entire time. Then during a train ride in India she said she received “a call within a call.” This call was to help the poor in India. In