Dorothea Mackellar is an Australian poet and novelist. She had a national feeling for her country Australia and that was shown through her widely known poem My Country. Which achieved wide love among different age categories of Australians. She was born to Charles Mackellar and Marion on the first of July, 1885 at Point Piper in Sydney. She was the only daughter of her parents and the third child among her three brothers. In terms of education, she was taught by her parents who had an important role in her life. Furthermore, she was given a private schooling at home as she had received special lessons in painting, fencing and even languages. Travel was considered the most important part in her educational life. She travelled vastly to different countries such as …show more content…
Dorothea spent her youth in a rural society. Her family owned agricultural land and fields in Hunter Valley near Gunnedah. These places hold a special place in Dorothea's heart that she loved to visit, in particular the grassy land and dancing barefoot under the rain. Which made her gain inspiration from the nature of the countryside and created imagination to become a poet. Dorothea had never had luck to get married as she was twice engaged between the years 1911 and 1914 Both engagements led to separation. The first separation due to the man had an excess love for her and the second because of the outbreak of World War I which led to the deprive of communication between them. Dorothea was beautiful, elegant and fashionable girl in her twenties. This was shown through her photographs. She was also distinguished as a skilled and powerful swimmer, strong and expert judge of horses and dogs. Acting was one of her interests that she loved. By partnering with her friend Ruth bed Ford they were able to form many stories and characters that took place around Sydney. Dorothea formed and participated in two organizations, Bush Book Club of NSW and P.E.N Club in Sydney in
Julia Tutwiler was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1841. Julia was the third born of eleven children of Henry and Julia Tutwiler. Henry Tutwiler was the chair of ancient languages at the University of Alabama. Julia’s mother was the university business manager. Henry Tutwiler believed that women were the intellectual equals of men and should be educated as such. He sent his daughter to Philadelphia to a boarding school that was based on the French system of education and offered instruction in modern languages and culture as well as art and music. (Encyclopedia). The way Henry brought up Julia was as an educated intellectual equal. Thi...
She spent her childhood with her parents in a friendly environment. Her father was a real estate developer and her mother was Psychologist. About her early life, when she was nine years old her parents divorced and she started staying with her mother.
what the reader once thought of Dorothea, a woman of dignity, into a naive child.
Freda Josephine McDonald was born on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, Eddie Carson, a vaudeville drummer left Josephine’s mother Carrie McDonald soon after her birth. Her mother remarried an unemployed man named Arthur Martin, who was kind. Their family would grow to include a son and two more daughters. Josephine grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for wealthy white families. She got a job waitressing at The Old Chauffeur's Club when she was 13 years old. This is where she met her first husband, she decided to leave home and get married.
In the book, Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France , the author, Evelyne Lever,
She was born in Bronx, New York in 1964. She was born poor and raised on welfare for a couple of years. Around the age of 10 she moved to Englewood, New Jersey. When she was in college she travel a lot. She visited England, France, Spain, and Russia.
closest to her. After her only brother died she tried to please her father by
During her life event, her family journey to the America for reason of setting up of the
before moving on to work as a commercial artist and a teacher. She married a fellow artist
Once she was of age to leave her home she did. Her mother was ok with her decision to join the sisterhood for she was very much into the church and believed in helping others. In 1928 she finally decided to leave her home to join the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland, she was eighteen years old(“Mother”). Sisters of Loreto mission was in Ireland but had other missions in other parts of the world. W...
to be a mother for her siblings, a teacher, later on a journalist, newspaper editor, sociologist and
The first woman that became an acceptation concerning women and education was Maria Montessori. Thinks to Maria Montessori and her efforts in education, women all over can be inspired to achieve an education in any area that they aspire. The reason why Montessori is so important is because of her philosophy that children should be taught and treated respectfully. “Perhaps this stemmed, in part, from her school experiences”.4 When Montessori was a child, she developed this way of thinking that grownups should respect kids, after overhearing a teacher talk about her. As she became older and wiser, in 1896, Montessori achieved one of her greatest accomplishments by becoming the first woman to earn an MD in Medicine. Montessori was a caring person and wanted to dedicate her time to both educating and assisting kids, specifically special needs children. This led her to start working with special-needs students, “developing principles that would promote the achievement of disenfranchised children”. Finally, after a prosperous journey, Montessori opened the "Casa dei Bambini" in Rome in 1907, a school for –After achieving such great success, Montessori would become a two time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Education for women in the 1800s was far different from what we know today. During her life, a girl was taught more necessary skills around the home than the information out of school books. A woman’s formal education was limited because her job opportunities were limited—and vice versa. Society could not conceive of a woman entering a profession such as medicine or the law and therefore did not offer her the chance to do so. It was much more important to be considered 'accomplished' than thoroughly educated. Elizabeth Bennet indicated to her sisters that she would continue to learn through reading, describing education for herself as being unstructured but accessible. If a woman desired to further he education past what her classes would teach her, she would have to do so independently, and that is what most women did.
She learns geography, history, art and French fluently. She is taught how to be a teacher, and how to be employed, which was not typical for a woman of her time.
Her achievement in translating the Australian experience into poetry led in her best work to a rich inheritance of lyricism and directness. Through stories told by older workers on the property she learnt of the pioneers' part in both the destruction of the land and the dispossession and murder of the aboriginal people. The sense of fear she felt at invasion enabled her to understand, at some level, how the Aborigines would have felt.