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The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764). The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. Though the choice was criticized, it became Longfellow's ...
Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 – July 3, 1970) was an American author who wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. Senator and novels set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe. A convert to Roman Catholicism, her later works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "eyes," not "keys." [1]
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
Chopin's mother had implored her to move back to St. Louis, which she did, with her mother's financial support. Her children gradually settled into life in the bustling city, but Chopin's mother died the following year. [18] Chopin struggled with depression after the successive loss of her husband, her business, and her mother. Chopin's ...
At eight years-old, Louisa wrote her first poem, "To the First Robin". When she showed the poem to her mother, Abigail was pleased. [35] In October 1842 Bronson returned from a visit to schools in England [36] and brought Charles Lane and Henry Wright with him [37] to live at Hosmer Cottage, while Bronson and Lane made plans to establish a "New ...
[4] Her mother was Charlotte Vandine Forten and her father was the African American abolitionist, James Forten. Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis's sisters were Harriet Forten Purvis (1810–1875), and Margaretta Forten (1808–1875). The three sisters, along with their mother, were founders of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. [5]
Henriette Díaz DeLille, SSF (March 11, 1813 [1] – November 17, 1862) was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans.She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...