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This site discusses the influence of women authors from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, once they became an educated force that was capabale of writing in a more public sense.

States the effects of the Grapes of Wrath and gives concrete information on the masses of migrant workers and their treatment in 1930s America. Shows legal actions taken as well as position of the press during the time period

"a four-week strike in October 1933 that involved 12,000 to 18,000 workers. Workers refused to pick the 1933 crop for the $0.60 per hundred pounds offered by growers" This quote describes the workers banding together in a strike attempting to do away with the poor treatment they are receiving from the large farm owners.

About the migration of "Okies" and "Arkies" to California, their efforts to survive in the face of abuse by Californians, and writers' attempts to make public the migrant workers' plight.

According to this article, J.K. Rowling, the formerly impoverished author of the Harry Potter Series, was the most successful author of the 2000-2010 decade. That seems like a big advance for poor women in literature.

"Until comparatively recent times, most women lived in such a world, for discrimination based on gender was the rule in almost every culture. Yet even in the most repressive times and places, writers of both sexes have protested the discrimination against women that was so thoroughly woven into the fabric of society that many people simply could not recognize the inequities."

This article focuses on women in literature. The main issue in feminist literature is the inequalities between the genders. The opportunities presented to each gender skew towards the male portion of the population. "A Room of One's Own" provides prominent examples of the discrepancies between females and males.

This graduate school thesis illustrates the racial tensions present in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. The NAACP was just rising to prominence, and many white people considered the black people in Harlem to be "uppity" and presumptuous because the whites considered the blacks to be unable to produce anything of value to society, yet the Harlem Renaissance produced music, literature, and other works of art in spite of such preconceived notions.

Ellison's difficulty, one cause of all the cuts, is that matter of self-definition. At a time when many blacks, especially the young, are denying all influences of American culture, Ellison, as always, doggedly affirms his identity as a Negro-American, a product of the blending of both cultures "I don't recognize any white culture," he says. "I recognize no American culture which is not the partial creation of black people. I recognize no American style in literature, in dance, in music, even in assembly-line processes, which does not bear the mark of the American Negro." Unlike Malcolm, he blends American and African. Like Malcolm, however, he sees that black people have a much larger influence on American life than given credit for.

Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive. Modern day science deals daily with the exact issues of which Shelley was apparently keenly aware. She introduces ethics to the study of science, even gives science a conscious. As the monster acts on Frankenstein's conscious, some would say that Mary Shelley writes literature to act as science's conscious. It was as if she acknowledged that the future of science, if uncontrolled, could be disastrous. science and the negative effects. shelley is trying to point out the danger of community too controlled by science

Discusses the dual identity of Frankenstein and his monster as doppelgangers, as well as the tragic flaws in Frankenstein himself. It discusses Frankenstein's transformation from innocently curious student to crazy, egotistical scientist

"Self-confinement exacerbates Victor's bizarre tendencies. Like the house bound heroine of domestic fiction, he retreats into an emotion-free state while dabbling in forbidden secrets in "a cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase"

This source again identifies the main themes of isolation and the lack of human connections in Shelly's novel. They help to highlight the basis of these themes and how they reoccur in the novel.

The nobel prize-winning author represented his native south in his novels. His characters show the rise of the south and its decadent fall.

This selection shows Steinbecks true intentions in writing The Grapes of Wrath. He was once hailed as the "great new prophet of proletarian literature" who is said to have felt deep remorse for the masses and wanted better conditions for all. Steinbeck wanted a world where the little guy could rise up and have as much as the wealthy, or socialism.

A somewhat history of F. Scotts Fitzgeralds life along with how he worked his life into alot of his works. He was a typicfal jaxx age man who wanted to live above his pay grade, and was contstanly in debt.

A good essay written about A room of one's own

This an interesting article, especially the second to last paragraph opposing what Woolf said with "These women "applied the cultural analysis of the feminists [before them] to words, sentences, and structures of language in the novel." However, Showalter criticizes their works for their androgynistic natures.For all its concern with sexual connotations and sexuality, the writing avoids actual contact with the body, disengaging from people into "a room of one's own." (Elizabeth lee)

This article is how one women breaks down the three periods in which women have written in, and even in the most modern one she describes how they only face "some freedom" and that true freedom may never come.

"The conclusion of A Room of One's Own puts forward Woolf s famous idea that the mind of the artist is androgynous, which means that there is a little bit of the masculine in every feminine brain, and vice versa."

"Victorian mores had, at least until the turn of the century, dictated the "proper" female roles of wife and mother, dutiful daughter, and overall gentle angel in the house."

This article discusses the main attributes of "A Room of One's Own" such as plot, themes, and authorial purpose. At Woolf's time, society perceives men as the superior gender and therefore society grants them more opportunities than women to succeed. Woolf's issue with this unfair treatment is the driving force in her piece of writing. Woolf also introduces the idea of the balance of feminism and masculinity in both genders. A person is not able to write great literature when their gender is pervading their writing.