Cobblestone articles from March 2002

Cobblestone archives from March 2002

Editor's note.(women writers)(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... In this issue of COBBLESTONE, we take a look at a loosely connected group of women. These are women who, for one reason or another, made writing their profession. We call them literary ladies. Prior to and into the 1800s in the United...

From feather pen to fountain pen: the growth of the publishing industry.
March 1, 2002... The publishing industry saw tremendous growth in the nineteenth century. In 1855, the Association of New York Publishers noted a remarkable eight hundred percent increase from the preceding two decades in book publications in America. This...

Tales of Truth.(books by Susanna Haswell Rowson, book about Mary Jemison and books by Catharine Maria Sedgwick)
March 1, 2002... As the nineteenth century dawned, Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) had already penned America's first bestseller. Charlotte, A Tale of Truth (later called Charlotte Temple) first appeared in London in 1791 and in America in 1794. More than...

'Worthy of study'. (Women Editors).(history of women in publishing industry and authors)
March 1, 2002... American women have a long history of involvement in writing and publishing. This is especially true of periodicals--that is, magazines and newspapers. It is known that at least fourteen women worked as printers before the Revolutionary War...

The transcendent life of Margaret Fuller.(editor of 19th-centuryTranscendentalist magazine, The Dial)
March 1, 2002... Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the most influential American women of her time. During her short life, she worked as an editor, teacher, literary critic, and journalist. For two years (1840-42), she edited The Dial magazine. This...

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. (Sharing Her Experiences).
March 1, 2002... One of the most active, intelligent, and learned women of her time, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894) was a teacher, publisher, editor, scholar, and author. She spent a lifetime helping others, but her aggressive disposition and talkative...

New England ladies.(authors Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett)
March 1, 2002... White picket fences, ships, brown bread, and baked beans. These are symbols of New England, as are two female nineteenth-century writers: Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett. Born in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1852, Mary Wilkins...

Did you know?(information about 19th-century women writers)
March 1, 2002... Included on these 2 pages is information about some famous 19th-century women writers who already have had an issue of COBBLESTONE devoted to them or who appear prominently in a previous issue of the magazine (see "From the Archives" on page...

Motherhood, slavery, and the Civil War.(works by women authors)
March 1, 2002... The issue of slavery divided the country during the Civil War (1861-1865). But, it was the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which granted Southerners the right to pursue runaway slaves into free states, that sparked the writing of a...

Decrying dishonor Helen Hunt Jackson.(poet better known for her efforts aiding Native Americans)
March 1, 2002... In her day, Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)was known as an accomplished poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous American thinker and philosopher, called her the "greatest American woman poet." Jackson also is thought to have been a lifelong friend...

Women of the West.(19th-century women writers)
March 1, 2002... Scenes of the West, such as cowboys, ranches, and gold provided writing material for these nineteenth-century female authors. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) followed her doctor husband west. She wrote a series of letters from...

Ida Tarbell investigative journalist.(Biography)
March 1, 2002... In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court broke apart the oil monopoly controlled by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. Though the company had been under investigation for some thirty years, it was Ida Minerva Tarbell, a writer for the popular...

Brain ticklers.(women writers)
March 1, 2002... Give your brain a little tickle to see how well you read and understood this issue on the literary ladies of the 19th century. If you believe the answer to be false, give yourself the ultimate test and see whether you can explain why it...

A final word.(roles of women through time)
March 1, 2002... Pretend you are an investigative reporter. Examine the changing roles of women during the past two centuries by asking family members if your great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mother, aunts, or female cousins were full-time mothers or workers...

By the sea. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... By the Sea As the sun tucked itself in for the night and the moon just started to call the stars out to play, I sat on the sandy beach, the wind whistling through my hair. In the distance, far out at...

Snow. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Snow The snow that falls is a fluffy, white cloud that drifts gracefully, arcing down to earth. Then it comes faster and gives birth to water when it lands on your warm, soft hand. It covers the...

Flurry. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Flurry The sky is falling, falling. Little flakes from heaven. Fluffy, white flakes slowly, silently, gracefully dancing through the sky and floating on the breeze. Faster, faster, falling...

Soar Like the Eagles. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Soar Like the Eagle We will soar like the eagles again. We'll fly as high as the sky. We'll go on with our lives. We'll join hands with other countries of the world. We'll move on from the past. We'll build a...

Baseball. (Letters).
March 1, 2002... Baseball Baseball is the sport I think I'm best At. It is fun, and it is special to me. I think baseball should be Even and fair. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you don't. Baseball is exciting....

Music. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Music It carries in waves, like a playful breeze sweeping joy and sadness into a pearly ball. Rolling and bouncing into one's heart and sewing a musical quilt. Elinor and Carolyn 3rd grade students...

Color Poem. (Letters).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Color Poem Pink tastes like sweet sugar bubble gum. Pink sounds like warm bunnies moving in the grass. I hear pink when I'm walking in the garden picking pink roses and posies. Pink makes me feel happy...

Dear Cobblestonians.(art works about cavalry requested)
March 1, 2002... During the Civil War, both the South and the North used army forces known as cavalry units. These were men who rode horses, sometimes in battle, sometimes as scouts, and sometimes as annoying distractions to their opponents. A few of the widely...

Digging deeper.(sources of information about women writers and women who accomplished much in their lives)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2002... Books to Read Sarah Josepha Hale: A New England Pioneer, 1788-1879 by Sherbrooke Rogers (Grantham, New Hampshire: Tompson & Rutter, 1985) traces the life and accomplishments of Hale, devoting chapters to her work to establish an official...