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The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry. Set in World War II era Harlem , Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confront her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single Black mother during this period.
Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
The epigraph in The Narrows from Henry V suggests that Shakespeare’s history play is the inspiration for the fictional town name of Monmouth, Connecticut: . I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the ’orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.
Nancy Travis loves seeing the cast of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants thriving.. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE to discuss her recent guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Shifting Gears ...
The Street (novel) T. Tituba of Salem Village This page was last edited on 24 October 2020, at 02:17 (UTC). Text ... Category: Novels by Ann Petry.
After Kiara got in her school fight last year, the systems around her prevented her from falling through the cracks. Students in Connecticut who act up get access to counseling, summer jobs, after-school activities, mentors and medication.
Tituba of Salem Village is a 1964 children's novel by African-American writer Ann Petry about the 17th-century West Indian slave of the same name who was the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials. Written for children 10 and up, it portrays Tituba as a black West Indian woman who tells stories about ...
She also taught Ann Petry, author of The Street (1946), the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies. [11] She has also made an impact in the state of Maine. By basing many of her books there, Robinson has made herself well known in the area.