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Louisa May Alcott  Louisa was born in 1832 to Abigail May (Abba) and Amos Bronson Alcott. ... After the dismal failure of his Utopian experiment in communal living at Fruitlands ... in Louisa's "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873), the task of supporting the family ... Searching for her literary form while trying to support her family, she wrote poetry...
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Louisa May Alcott - Biography in Context - Gale  Education: Tutored by her father until the age of sixteen; later studied under Henry ... One particularly grand failure--a utopian commune called Fruitlands ... digest," she wrote in her journal, later published in Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, ..... Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary, illustrated by J.
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Amos Bronson Alcott - Wikipedia  Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an ... The project was short-lived and failed after seven months. .... Louisa May Alcott was born on her father's birthday, November 29, 1832, at a .... at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats (1873): "The band of...
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From Success to Experience: Louisa May Alcott's Work - JStor  period Louisa May Alcott wrote Work, an adult semi-autobiographical novel. ... 1257 (January 2, 1873) ; ... Odell Shepard (Boston, 1938); Letters of A. Bronson Alcott, ed. ... suggests that she had difficulty dramatizing the successful life of a woman .... Alcott's sketch describes her father, crushed by the collapse of his experi.
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Louisa May Alcott | HistoryNet  Alcott is also remembered for her book Hospital Sketches, which she penned in 1863 ... Alcott later wrote about the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats, a satire ... After seven months, the commune failed; in December, 1843, the Alcotts .... Unlike the fictional Mr. March of Little Women, Louisa's father Bronson Alcott,...
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Laura E. Richards - 19th-Century Girls' Series  Richards's mother, the poet Julia Ward Howe, is perhaps best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic. ... Years later, she recalled Reid's books with particular delight, writing ... Politely from Laura, 'Yes, won't you come in?' .... Richards and her sister Maud Howe Elliott co-authored Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910...
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Eudora Welty - Mississippi | THE SOUTH | Mississippi | Pinterest ...  Her novel 'The Optimist's Daughter' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. .... winner of the Pulitzer prize for writing The Optomist's Daughter) was also an accomplished photographer! ... I didn't know that Eudora Welty was an accomplished photographer! .... I love her. Eudora Welty garden, Mississippi. in the garden : eudora welty.
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Henry David Thoreau by Emily Wasilus on Prezi  Thoreau Walden Life Without Principle Civil Disobedience Biography 18- chapter novel written about nature. In March, 1845, Thoreau built a cabin at Walden Pond. ... After, he went into business at his father's pencil making factory, and also ... he spent one night in jail, which became the subject of his essay "Resistance to...
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Louisa May Alcott - Wikipedia  Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ... She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. ... Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, which is now ... May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest;...
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Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson  Reviews, Discussion ...  James said: Green Mansions: a Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an ... of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. .... She was a half-wild girl named Rima who lived close to nature, hiding while ... After looking up the title on Amazon.com and Goodreads, I realized it was,...
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Book review: 'The Sacrifice,' by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by ...  Jan 29, 2015 ... During her long and distinguished career, Joyce Carol Oates never has shied ... Oates's latest novel, The Sacrifice, seems likely to stir up another flap. ... the post-industrial ruins of Pascayne, N.J., an imaginary town on the Passaic ... That book, despite its subject, was written with a verve and humanity that...
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics): Ole ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written ... Kindle E-readers ..... Their Fathers' God by O. E. Rolvaag Paperback $16.36 .... of the homesteading experience, such as Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series, .... Set up an Amazon Giveaway.
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pre-raphaelisme: That was a Piedmontese by Arthur Hughes ...  April Love by Arthur Hughes | Inspired by Tennyson's poem The Miller's ..... Published in 1910, The Poems of Christina Rossetti was Florence Harrison's ..... AugustaAugusta LivedFile AugustaAugusta QueenGerman EmpressGerman .... The Germ - a periodical edited by William Michael Rossetti, in which poetry, essays.
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Nature (essay) - Wikipedia  "Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief .... 1836 essays  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson  Philosophical literature  Transcendentalism  Works published anonymously.
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Animal Farm - Wikipedia  Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in ... The animals work harder with the promise of easier lives with the windmill. ... When some animals recall the Battle of the Cowshed, Napoleon (who was ..... Secker and Warburg published the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945 without...
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Marcel Proust | French writer | Britannica.com  18, 1922, Paris) French novelist, author of  la recherche du temps perdu (191327; ... The death of Proust's father in 1903 and of his mother in 1905 left him grief ... was refused by the best-selling publishers Fasquelle and Ollendorff and even by .... Audubon's Summer Red Bird shows the bird now known as the tanager.
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Joyce Carol Oates - Wikipedia  Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in ... Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently the .... Her second novel was A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), first of the ... from both countries, as well as essays and reviews of an intercultural nature.
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"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a ...  By closely reading the famous poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor, this essay ... One of the problems of Romantic ecology has been its almost complete lack of attention ..... as the voice-over: "sounds one hears without seeing their originating cause" ..... opposite of the cozy externality of Auden's "Out on the lawn I lie in bed" (1).
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Look Homeward, Angel - Wikipedia  Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. ... Wolfe later made amends with Perkins, prior to the former's death in 1938.
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Utopia (book) - Wikipedia  Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (14781535) published in ... The first book tells of the traveller Raphael Hythlodaeus, to whom More is introduced in Antwerp, and it ... landand the subsequent poverty and starvation of people who are denied access to land because of sheep farming.
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The Good Earth - Welcome to NoveList Select. - Ebsco  Description: The young farmer Wang Lung awakes on his wedding day and heads ... She wrote two other novels about the Wang family: Sons (1932) and A ... O-lan proves to be such a hard worker that she gives birth to their first child and .... the great gates and courtyards of the house and begins to desire more than land.