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American Feminist Literature
Greta Ertzgard, Katie Kloos, And Laura Hungerford
The Importance of American Feminist
Writers…Books added to reform movements…like that of women’s suffrage and independence
Shed light on subjects like abuse, tolerance, individuality, equality, etc.
Influenced other women to write
Feminist Writers…
Maya Angelou
Lorraine Hansberry
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisa May Alcott
Maya AngelouBorn: April 4, 1928
Parents divorced when she was 3 and she and her brother were sent to live with her grandmother in Arkansas.
Visiting her mother and her boyfriend
High School (scholarship, dropped out, pregnant)
Guy
At age 16 she left home with her son and worked as a waitress to raise her son.
She still had a passion for dance, music, and drama.
Maya Angelou (cont.)Married Tosh Angelou, the marriage did not last long.
Maya Angelou was the name she used when she started singing at a nightclub.
First album in 1957
Moved to New York to work on writing
Very involved with Civil Right Movements (Martin Luther King Jr.)
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings: Arkansas- Guy
National Figure
Lorraine HansberryMay 19, 1930- January 12, 1965
Parents active in civil rights
1938 move to new neighborhood
University of Wisconsin
Freedom the newspaper
Robert Nemiroff
Lorraine Hansberry (cont.)
Writing
The Raisin in the Sun
Cancer
divorce
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896
Most famous work: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What People Influenced Her Life
Harriet’s family of abolitionists definitely influenced her
Her father was a minister, president of Lane Theological Seminary, was strong in his faith and believed in education
Youngest sister, Isabella, was involved in the suffrage movement
Catharine Beecher (sister) had a huge impact. She founded schools for young women and was an author
Who influenced Harriet (cont.)
Husband Calvin Stowe supported her writing (unusual for her time). He was also a minister.
“God has written in His book that you must be a literary woman, and who are we to go against God?”
-Calvin Stowe
Events that inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Civil War tension
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Death of Harriet’s son, Charley, in 1850
Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888
19th century writer of Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Born: November 29, 1832 in Germantown, PA
Had three sisters…Anna, Elizabeth, and May
Educated by her father, a transcendentalist, and her mother, a well-known abolitionist, suffragist, and the first paid social worker in MA
Grew up in Boston and Concord because of her parents transcendentalist friends
Tomboy…
A passion for writing…
Began story-telling with her sisters
She would always play the vivacious characters
Family’s poverty caused her to vow to help them out with her story-telling
Had many jobs to support her family
1st works published in magazines
Themes included family relationships, self-reliance, and perseverance
Alcott… (cont.)Famous Works
1st book- Flowers and Fables (1854)
Hospital Sketches
• Most well-known book, Little Women, written when her publisher requested her to write a “book for girls”
Influences
• Experiences as a nurse during the Civil War, at Union Hospital
• Growing up with her sisters
• Family poverty
Works Cited• http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?
ItemID=WE42&NewItemID=True
• http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/life/#writer
• http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?ItemID=WE42&NewItemID=True
• www.mayaangelou.com
• http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1
• http://womenshistory.about.com/odlaframewriters/p/hansberry.htm
• http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/lorrainehnsberry/p/bio_hansberry_1.tm