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Goblin Market tells the adventures of two close sisters, Laura and Lizzie, with the river goblins. Although the sisters seem to be quite young, they live by themselves in a house, and draw water every evening from a stream. As the poem begins, the sisters hear the calls of the goblin merchants selling their fantastic fruits in the twilight.
Elaine self-published her poems at age eight in her Sky Farm Life, a monthly. Her first pastoral poem appeared in the Springfield Republican when she was twelve. [6] Friends helped collect the two girls' early writings; Elaine was fifteen and Dora twelve when their first book was published: Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children (1878)
[9] In 1838 Sarah married Joseph Purvis with whom she had eight children, including William B. Purvis. [5] Joseph Purvis was the brother of Robert Purvis, who was the husband of Sarah's sister Harriet. [2] She died in 1884 in Philadelphia. Though some works that speak about her life and poetry state she died in 1857. [10]
Laura Goode (born November 25, 1983) is an American author, novelist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, producer, and feminist. She is the author of the young adult novel Sister Mischief, the co-writer and producer of the feature film Farah Goes Bang, and writes the ANTIHEROINES column for Bright Ideas Magazine.
Alice's first major poem, "The Child of Sorrow", was published in 1838 and was praised by influential critics including Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Horace Greeley. [4] Alice and her sister were included in the influential anthology The Female Poets of America prepared by Rufus Griswold. [ 5 ]
The Frog Prince (Longmans, 1966) includes 69 previously unpublished poems; The Best Beast (Longmans, 1969) Two in One (Longmans, 1971) reprint of Selected Poems and The Frog Prince; Scorpion and Other Poems (Longmans, 1972) Collected Poems (Allen Lane, 1975) Selected Poems (Penguin, 1978) New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith (New Directions, 1988)
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Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo!