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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement , and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
The Garden" is a widely anthologized poem by the seventeenth-century English poet, Andrew Marvell. The poem was first published posthumously in Miscellaneous Poems (1681). [ 1 ] “ The Garden” is one of several poems by Marvell to feature gardens, including his “Nymph Complaining for the Death her Fawn,” “The Mower Against Gardens ...
Women in the Garden (French: Femmes au jardin) is an oil painting begun in 1866 by French artist Claude Monet when he was 26. It is a large work painted en plein air; the size of the canvas necessitated Monet painting its upper half with the canvas lowered into a trench he had dug, so that he could maintain a single point of view for the entire work.
James A. Michener — Matecumbe; Walter M. Miller Jr. — Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with Terry Bisson) Yukio Mishima — The Decay of the Angel; Margaret Mitchell — Lost Laysen; Vladimir Nabokov — The Original of Laura; Irène Némirovsky — Suite française; Frank Norris — The Pit: A Story of Chicago, Vandover and the Brute
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is the title of the collection of satirical poems published on June 12, 1915 [1] by suffragist Alice Duer Miller. [2] Many of the poems in this collection were originally released individually in the New York Tribune between February 4, 1913 to November 4, 1917. [3]
May Miller (January 26, 1899 – February 8, 1995) [1] was an American poet, playwright and educator. Miller, who was African-American , became known as the most widely published female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance and had seven volumes of poetry published during her career as a writer.
On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked. Cinderella's stepsisters' language is decidedly more declarative than hers, and the woman at the center of the tale "The Lazy Spinner" is a slothful character who, to the Grimms' apparent chagrin, is "always ready with her tongue."
This volume demonstrated Gioia’s interest in narrative poetry with two long dramatic monologues, “Counting the Children” in which an accountant has a disturbing interaction with a dead woman’s grotesque doll collection, and “The Homecoming,” which is spoken by an escaped returning home to commit one final murder.