Were both Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman both american writers?
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Henry James Henry James, OM ((1843--)15 1843 – (1916--)28 1916 ) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( ); also Charlotte Perkins Stetson (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
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Elizabeth Williams Champney Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams Champney (February 6, 1850 – October 13, 1922) was an American writer of numerous articles and novels, most of which featured foreign locations. Her novels were originally directed mainly at young girls, including the "Witch Winnie" series and the "Vassar Girls Abroad" series, but she later wrote romantic semi-fictional fables of castles, such as "The Romance of the Feudal Chäteaux" (1899). She was the wife of artist James Wells Champney.
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James Baldwin James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, for instance "The Fire Next Time" (1963), "No Name in the Street" (1972), and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976). An unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House", was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro".
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Frances Cranmer Greenman Frances Cranmer Greenman (June 28, 1890 – May 24, 1981) was an American portrait painter, critic and columnist.
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Manly Wade Wellman Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer.
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Thomas W. Hanshew Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company. Subsequently he played important roles with Clara Morris and Adelaide Neilson. Later he was associated with a publishing house in London, where he resided at the close of his life. He used, among others, the pen name "Charlotte May Kingsley," and wrote more than 150 novels, some of which were co-authored with his wife, Mary E. Hanshew.
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James Marshall (author) James Edward Marshall (October 10, 1942 – October 13, 1992) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, probably best known for the "George and Martha" series of picture books (1972–1988). He illustrated books exclusively as James Marshall; when he created both text and illustrations he sometimes wrote as Edward Marshall. In 2007 the U.S. professional librarians posthumously awarded him the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for "substantial and lasting contribution" to American children's literature.
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Abba Goold Woolson Abba Louisa Goold Woolson ("née" Abba Louisa Goold; April 30, 1838 – February 6, 1921) was a 19th-century American writer from Maine. Woolson published several volumes, including: "Women in American Society" (1873); "Dress Reform" (1874); "Browsing Among Books" (1881); and "George Eliot and Her Heroines" (1887).
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Charlotte Dacre Charlotte Dacre (1771 or 1772 – 7 November 1825), born Charlotte King, was an English author of Gothic novels.
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James Henry Hurdis James Henry Hurdis (1800-1857) was an amateur artist and the elder son of James Hurdis, a renowned professor of poetry. He is known for his many portraits of notable Sussex people. The cult of the Sussex Martyrs is said to have been started using Hurdis's image of Richard Woodman burning as a Protestant martyr.
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Eloisa James Eloisa James is the pen name of Mary Bly (born 1962). She is a tenured professor of English Literature at Fordham University who also writes best-selling Regency and Georgian romance novels under her pen name.
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Charles W. Gilman Charles W. Gilman (October 20, 1862 – August 26, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician.
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Theatricals: Second Series Theatricals: Second Series is a book of two plays by Henry James published in 1895. As a follow-up to his 1894 book "Theatricals", James included two more unproduced plays in this volume, "The Album" and "The Reprobate". James wrote a longer preface for this book, where he discussed writing for the theater and the sacrifices involved.
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Herland (novel) Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It first appeared as a serial in "The Forerunner", a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916. The book is the middle volume in her utopian trilogy; it was preceded by "Moving the Mountain" (1911), and followed with a sequel, "With Her in Ourland" (1916). It was not published in book form until 1979.
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Henry Grossman Henry Grossman (born 1936) is an American photographer, best known for his portraits of notable figures, in particular President John F. Kennedy and the Beatles, as well as prominent political figures, writers, and performing artists. Through much of his career he was a staff photographer for Life Magazine. His photographs feature portraits that include Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Luciano Pavarotti, and Barbra Streisand.
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Matilda Hays Matilda Mary Hays (8 September 1820 – 3 July 1897) was a 19th-century English writer, journalist and part-time actress. With Elizabeth Ashurt, Hays translated several of George Sand's works into English. She co-founded the "English Woman's Journal". Her love interests included the actress Charlotte Cushman, with whom she had a 10-year relationship, and the poet Adelaide Anne Procter.
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The American (novel) The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family.
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David Henry Wilson David Henry Wilson (1937, London - ) is an English writer. As an author he is best known for his children's stories such as the "Jeremy James" series. Wilson has also had a number of plays produced in the United Kingdom, both for children and adults. He is also the author of "The Coachman Rat" (1989), a satirical novel based on the Cinderella story.
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Women and Economics Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: “the economic independence and specialization of women as essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement.”
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Octavia Walton Le Vert Octavia Walton Le Vert (August 11, 1811 – March 12, 1877), née Octavia Celestia Valentine Walton was an American socialite and writer born in Augusta, Georgia. She moved with her parents to Mobile, Alabama in 1835, where she married Dr. Henry Strachey Le Vert in 1836. She became one of the first female southern writers to achieve national recognition. Although largely faded from history today, she was a well-known figure during her own time. From the 1830s through the 1850s she was noted for hosting gatherings of prominent politicians, noted literary figures, and professionals of all types. She was friends with a variety of prominent 19th century figures.
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Notions of the Americans Notions of the Americas; Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor is a 1828 semi-nonfictional travel narrative by James Fenimore Cooper. The work takes the form of letters between a fictional bachelor traveling in the United States to his European friends. Cooper wrote the work while in Europe, and originally published the work anonymously, to conceal his identity and be more convincing to European audiences. The book persuasively argues for the virtue of American values and democracy in comparison to the aristocratic values of Europe.