Category: Biography

Edgar Allan Poe As A Poet And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes). This quote by Edgar Allan Poe hints at the estranged life he lived. Edgar Allan Poe was a poet who suffered a life of hardships and whose only solace came from…

Mistreatment And Hardships In Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl The issue of slavery in the 1800s had the means of being very brutal and carried dehumanizing factors that affected the lives of many men, women, and children who were colored. The autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, highly demonstrated…

Edgar Allan Poe: The Father Of Detective Story An American writer, editor, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a…

Characteristics of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Individual Style The romantic period in history and literature was a time that we now see was uneasy and full of turmoil and distress all over England. We started to see a rise in a revolution that completely split different class levels right down the middle, as many working class people…

Autobiography and Space: Slave Narrative of Harriet Jacobs of America and Mary Prince of England Abstract: The women writers in the 19th century represented themselves in the form of writings and presented their ideas through the medium of autobiography, a genre in the literary world. Genre, according to Collins dictionary is a particular type of…

Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: Studying The Origins Of Slavery The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a heartfelt book of his enduring life. This book gave me a great appreciation for all Frederick has endured, all he overcame and lived through and for what he became. What an inspirational story…

Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass: Analysis Introduction to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative ‘For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.’ (Douglass, 93). Frederick Douglass is known as one of the most prominent abolitionist speakers and activists in history; furthermore, creating one of the most sought after novels, The Narrative of the Life…

Mary Wollstonecraft: Way of Life One might not remember a time when women did not have a say in the world. Women today have the right to vote, join the army, and get any job they want, all because of Mary Wollstonecraft and other worldly known feminists. Throughout her life, Mary Wollstonecraft advocated for womens…

Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: Undeniable Humanity Of A Slave Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist, a powerful force for the movement through his speaking and writing. His short story, The Heroic Slave, in conjunction with his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, help spread his ideals widely throughout the United…

The Civil Rights Movement: An Extension Of Progressivism Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a beloved figure of freedom and a controversial figure during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. Claybourne Carson, editor of ‘The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr’ had accumulated hundreds of documents, and audio recordings…