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Anne was born in Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. [6]Due to her family's position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.
Elizabeth Wade White at age 18 in 1924 at Westover School. Elizabeth Wade White (June 8, 1906 – December 11, 1994) was an American writer, poet, and activist. [1] She was a lover of Valentine Ackland and wrote The Life of Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse, about the early American poet and first American writer to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.
"Contemplations" is a 17th-century poem by English colonist Anne Bradstreet. The poem's meaning is debated, with some scholars arguing that it is a Puritan religious poem while others argue that it is a Romantic poem .
Sweeney Agonistes by T. S. Eliot was his first attempt at writing a verse drama although he was unable to complete the piece. In 1926 and 1927 he separately published two scenes from this attempt and then collected them in 1932 in a small book under the title Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama.
A total of 59 medieval manuscripts exist for books 1-5 and/or 11-20 of the Bibliotheca Historica; a complete set including the now lost books 6-10 and 21-40 existed in the Imperial Palace of Constantinople until its sack in 1453. [29] All 59 medieval manuscripts descend from 4 prototypes according to Bertrac & Vernière (1993): [30]
The opposite is a prologue—a piece of writing at the beginning of a work of literature or drama, usually used to open the story and capture interest. [2] Some genres, for example television programs and video games , call the epilogue an "outro" patterned on the use of "intro" for "introduction".
Lucy Maud Montgomery's books on Anne Shirley # Book: Date published: Anne Shirley's age 1: Anne of Green Gables: 1908: 11 – 16 2: Anne of Avonlea: 1909: 16 – 18 3: Anne of the Island: 1915: 18 – 22 4: Anne of Windy Poplars/Anne of Windy Willows: 1936: 22 – 25 5: Anne's House of Dreams: 1917: 25 – 27 6: Anne of Ingleside: 1939: 34 ...
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a book by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Fogel and Engerman argued that slavery was an economically rational institution and that the economic exploitation of slaves was not as catastrophic as presumed, because there were financial incentives for slaveholders to maintain a basic level of material support ...