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Daphne Du Maurier ( 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989 ) was born in London. She came from an artistic household. Her male parent was the actor-manager Sir Gerald Du Maurier and she was the granddaughter of caricaturist George Du Maurier. One of her ascendants was Mary Anne Clarke, the kept woman of the…

Anti-miscegenation laws were strictly enforced to keep the races segregated so it is especially interesting to view Howard’s quite different viecrovwpoints here. “Day Breaks Over Simla” (undated) is a poem about an interracial love affair between what sounds like a young woman from India and a member of the British Consul stationed there. The beautiful…

Ethan Frome written  in 1905 is a novel about the dilemmas of a poor New England farmer named Ethan Frome, his wife Zeena, and Zeena’s cousin, Mattie Silver. The first person narrator, an engineer, comes to the town of Starkfield and becomes curious about the crippled, taciturn Ethan Frome. The tragic consequences of Ethan’s unhappy…

Anne Bradstreet, a remarkable woman of the seventeenth century, was on par with male writers of her time. Her education was strongly influenced by her upbringing, as she received exceptional guidance from her father and had the privilege of accessing a vast library filled with books. Consequently, she developed a profound passion for reading and…

In the kingdom of literary classics, there exists love a deep story, passion, and fate that took the hearts of readers for generations. But too late history, filled with emotion and dramatic intensity, crosses distances of time and space, drawing us in the world of feuding families and falling in love grać-przeciął. Set against the…

A Personal Reality Through Faith You can do anything you put your mind to, and with no risk comes no reward; two phrases that summarize faith and imagination, the basis of short story entitled The Celestial Omnibus. The Celestial Omnibus by E.M. Forster is about the freeing of ones soul through faith and imagination and…

For the purposes of this assignment I will be examining two of Coleridge s most notable poetic works; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. From The Rime I will be examining the poets treatment of the Mariner himself and from Kubla Khan both Kubla Khan and the unnamed poetic presence that is…

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I have, may it please the court and jury, a few words to say. In the first place, I do not deny anything that the court has against me. Of course, I am here to make an appeal to the court to acknowledge that I did not have any…

The opening sentence acknowledges the common knowledge and acceptance that a wealthy single man requires a wife. Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, portrays the society of her era which valued marriage not only for love but also for social advancement, networking, and financial gain. The actions of the characters throughout the book delve into…

I personally think many authors use their own experiences to influence their work. Some do it to fight for something they truly believe in. Writers can get their inspirations from their own traumatic experiences. Kate Chopin has been a successful writer of short stories during her lifetime. During Chopin’s life and the many traumas she…