Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and critic. Soyinka has been imprisoned several times for his criticism of the government. From the 1970s he has lived long periods in exile. Soyinka's plays range from comedy to tragedy and from political satire to the theatre of the absurd. He has combined influences from Western traditions with African myth, legends and folklore, and such techniques as singing and drumming.// She was born in Abeokuta, southwestern Nigeria, which was then a British...
Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was born in New South Wales on 17 June 1867. He was the son of a Norwegian seaman, Niels Larsen, who later changed his name to Peter Lawson. // In Henry's early years, the family lived on a poor selection in the Mudgee district. Lawson suffered from deafness and was often teased as a result. // Henry moved to Sydney with his mother, Louisa. It was there that Louisa began publishing the feminist newspaper The Dawn. // Henry spent periods of time in institutions for his alcoholism,...
Chinua Achebe (1930- ) African novelist, whose novel “Things fall apart” transformed the landscape of African fiction, in his own continent and in the Western society. His novel changed most of the Western’s impression of Africa and culture, replacing a simplistic stereotype with a complex society still suffering due to the western cultural oppression. // He was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and educated at church schools and at University College. He was director of an external broadcasting from...
“Miss Bill” by Katherine Mansfield(1888–1923) AUTHOR: She was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand. Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Mansfield reflected in her work loneliness, illness, jealousy, with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her...
Middle march: AUTHOR: Eliot spent 21 years of her life among people that she later depicted in her novels. She was educated at home and in several schools, and developed a strong evangelical piety. She took up work as subeditor of Westminster Review. In Coventry she met some intellectuals who introduced her to many new religious and political ideas. She died in 1880; she published several novels that gained quite success. YEAR: 1871, published 1874
TOPICS: -Education: The book examines the...
The governess: AUTHOR: -Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was one of the eighteen century's most respected woman writers. -Sarah turned to writing and became the first of a class of professional women authors who sought to make their living through writing. Two of her famous works are "The Adventure of David Sample" and “The Governess”. YEAR of publication: The Governess was published 1749. It is the first full-length novel written...
Mary: A Fiction: AUTHOR -Feminist writer and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in London. Brought up by an abusive father, she left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. -When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess. Three years later, she published her most famous work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, an educational reform, giving women access to the same educational opportunities as men. -She had two daughters,...
-->CHARACTERS involved in the fragment: -Henry Dashwood: Husband of Mrs. Dashwood, and father of Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret; also has a son, John, from a previous marriage. He dies at the beginning of the novel, leaving his wife and daughters little money and his son his estate. -John Dashwood: Mr. Dashwood's only son, he is selfish and miserly and mostly unpleasant to his half-sisters. Married to Fanny Dashwood, who is even more selfish and mean-spirited than himself. -Mrs. Dashwood: Mother...
Sense and Sensibility:AUTHOR: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. YEAR of publication: Published in 1811
MAIN topics in the work: -Money/Inheritance: Laws surrounding inheritance are what put the Dashwood women in limbo...