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Next,I will give all of you some notice information about some famous authors. Let
begin with Edgar Allan Poe. (He was called the “architect” of the modern short
story). Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and
considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant
contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. so, he had some Notable
works such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) “The Black Cat” (1843)
“The Raven” (1845) and so on.
Now, we moving to some more details of his works
The first is “The Black Cat” (1843) published in 1845 edition of The Saturday
Evening Post. "The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works,
and a powerful warning against the dangers of alcoholism. The story is a study of
the psychology of guilt, in which a murderer tries to hide his crime. But in the end,
his guilt makes him admit the crime.
In 1845, Poe became largely popular through his poem The Raven, which showed
up in his last volume. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar
Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It tells the story of a mysterious
talking raven who visits a lover; it shows how the lover is slowly going insane. It is
often called Poe's most famous poem, its publication made him famous in his day,
and today it is still one of the most recognized and respected poems in American
literature.
Moving on to another authors is Lydia Child. She founded and published Juvenile
Miscellany, the first children's magazine in the United States. Child also wrote on
housekeeping and child rearing, slavery, abolitionism, religion, women's issues,
and Native American rights. She had many noticeable works but the most
prominent is "Over the River and Through the Wood", So now I will give you some
summary information about this.
"Over the River and Through the Wood" is a Thanksgiving poem. It appeared in
the second volume of her Flowers for Children in 1844. The original title of the
poem is, "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day".
this poem is easily Child’s most famous work. Child never revised the poem
herself, but the verses changed over time, especially when they were set to music.




With its bouncing rhythms and high spirits, the poem draws on the writer’s
childhood memories of visiting her grandfather’s house on Thanksgiving. Having
gained notoriety for her ideas about race, Child kept her antislavery ideals out of
this volume in an effort to avoid controversy and boost sales. Flowers for Children
contains only two stories involving race, and they both avoid addressing racial
prejudice head on. In this nostalgic poem, Child takes us back to the simple
pleasures of a family holiday."

/> /> /> /> /> /> />Edgar Allan Poe most vividly depicted, and inhabited, the role of the Romantic
individual—a genius, often tormented and always struggling against convention—
during the 1830s and up to his mysterious death in 1849.

WOMEN WRITERS AND REFORMERS merican women endured many
inequalities in the 19th century: They were denied the vote, barred from
professional schools and most higher education, forbidden to speak in public and
even attend public conventions, and unable to own property. Despite these
obstacles, a strong women’s network sprang up. Through letters, personal
friendships, formal meetings, women’s newspapers, and books, women furthered
social change. Intellectual women drew parallels between themselves and slaves.


They courageously demanded fundamental reforms, such as the abolition of
slavery and women’s suffrage, despite social ostracism and sometimes financial
ruin. Their works were the vanguard of intellectual expression of a larger women’s
literary tradition that included the sentimental novel. Women’s sentimental novels,
such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, were enormously popular.
They appealed to the emotions and often dramatized contentious social issues,
particularly those touching the family and A 42 women’s roles and responsibilities.

Abolitionist Lydia Child (1802-1880), who greatly influenced Margaret Fuller,
was a leader of this network. Her successful 1824 novel Hobomok shows the need
for racial and religious toleration. Its setting — Puritan Salem, Massachusetts —
anticipated Nathaniel Hawthorne. An activist, Child founded a private girls’ school,
founded and edited the first journal for children in the United States, and published
the first antislavery tract, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called
Africans, in 1833. This daring work made her notorious and ruined her financially.
Her History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations (1855) argues
for women’s equality by pointing to their historical achievements



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