61. Montz Adams, Tillie Olsen: "The Essential Angel" - TRIVIA - Voices Of Feminism | bookjacket tillie olsen s Silences Maxine Hong Kingston called tillie olsen’s Silences “a valuable book, an angry book, a call to action. http://www.triviavoices.net/archives/issue5/montez_adams.html

Skip to Navigation Bar Jump to Sidebar Jump to News Bar Current issue ... Home TRIVIA TRIVIA, deriving from "tri-via" (crossroads), was one of the names of the Triple Goddess. Recognizing that what is of primary importance in women's lives tends to be relegated to the margins of patriarchal history and thought, dismissed as "trivial," we conceive TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism as a place at the crossroads where women's ideas can assume their original power and significance. Jump to Navigation Jump to Main Content TRIVIAL LIVES Tillie Olsen - "The Essential Angel” Suzanne Montz Adams Silences Silences for the first time a year ago, I finally found a reason to stop berating myself for not writing more, not publishing more, not being make In Silences , Olsen gives voice to the challenges faced by working women and women with children who long to write. Reading this book, I vacillated between anger at the social situations that remained unchanged in the twenty-five years since Silences was first published and exhilaration at discovering a community of women writers who grappled with the same obstacles that I did. My role as a mother provided an important sense of self-worth. I kept my love affair with words fairly private with only my husband and a few close friends and family aware of its existence, but I tried to squeeze in creative writing classes and I read every book on writing I could find.

62. Literary Mama Blog: In Honor Of Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 The entire Literary Mama community mourns the passing of tillie olsen, who died on New Year s Day at age 94. She was and is a hero to women writers http://www.literarymama.com/interact/blog/archives/001367.html

Read the Introduction Recent Entries Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff, Especially For Moms! "Who We Are" Hero Series call for true stories Creative Non-Fiction, writing memoir ... New Poetry from Julia Lisella Archives August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 ... April 2005 E-zine Don't have time to check for updates? Let us come to you! Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Literary Mama E-zine. Literary Mama About Us Submissions Contact Literary Mama Bookshop ... Literary Mama Gear Powered by Movable Type 3.16 Literary Mama Blog Main January 10, 2007 In Honor of Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 The entire Literary Mama community mourns the passing of Tillie Olsen, who died on New Year's Day at age 94. She was and is a hero to women writers everywhere, especially to those of us who try every moment of every day to balance writing with motherhood. Lengthier and more formal obituaries can be read in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times , and they do a fine job reciting the facts of Tillie's life. But Tillie was more to us than a resume, more than a prominent writer and early feminist. She was a mother who wrote, and wrote well.

63. Feminist Writer Tillie Olsen Dies At 94 tillie olsen, whose short story I Stand Here Ironing was a classic of feminist fiction, died Monday at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/01/03/tillie-olsen-obit.html

News Sports Entertainment Radio ... My Region Story Tools: E-MAIL PRINT S M ... SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Feminist writer Tillie Olsen dies at 94 CBC Arts Tillie Olsen, whose short story I Stand Here Ironing was a classic of feminist fiction, died Monday at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif. She was two weeks shy of her 95th birthday and had been in failing health for years, said her daughter, Laurie Olsen. Tillie Olsen's book Silences discusses why women have so little time to write and draws attention to forgotten women writers such as Rebecca Harding Davis. (Random House) Olsen wrote just one collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle and a single novel, Yonnondio: From the Thirties , but was enormously influential as a feminist and activist. The title piece of Tell Me a Riddle , the story of an elderly immigrant woman, won an O. Henry Prize for short fiction, and the collection became a standard text for feminist studies and other college courses. The first line of the first story, "I stand here ironing," about a woman estranged from her daughter, was so evocative that every so often a fan would send Olsen an iron. Olsen was remarkable for writing about the lives of ordinary women and the working poor and for her scholarship dealing with why women write so little and get so little recognition for their work.

64. Tillie Olsen GRINNELL, Iowa On Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25, noted award-winning author, tillie olsen, will visit the Grinnell College campus as the final http://www.grinnell.edu/publicrelations/releases/2000/olsen.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dann Hayes, Director of Media Relations, April 17, 2001 Noted Award-Winning author, Tillie Olsen, Noun Speaker GRINNELL, Iowa - On Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25, noted award-winning author, Tillie Olsen, will visit the Grinnell College campus as the final Noun Program in Women's Studies speaker for the 2000-2001 academic year. At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Olsen will speak on "Tillie Olsen Reminiscing and Reading from her Various Works" in the Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College. There will be a reception and a book signing following the event. On Wednesday at 4:15 p.m., there will be a "Read-In, in Honor of Tillie Olsen," with members of the Grinnell College campus community reading from selected works. The author of the highly praised book "Tell Me a Riddle, Silences, and Yonnondio," Olsen, 89, is a Nebraska native, born in 1912, who began writing in the 1930s with her first short story, "The Iron Throat" and the poem "I Want You Women Up North to Know" (Partisan Review, 1934). As a child, she accompanied her father to several midwest strike actions in the company of Eugene Debs and Big Bill Haywood. The necessity of raising and supporting four children through "everyday jobs" silenced her for 20 years. Self-taught, Olsen has taught, or been a writer-in-residence, at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass; Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

65. Stories, Listed By Author Anon., Hamlyn 1986; listed as by J. V. olsen on story itself. olsen, tillie (1913 ). * Author’s Perspective olsen Women’s Silence, (ar) http://www.philsp.com/homeville/anth/s138.htm

Miscellaneous Anthologies Stories, Listed by Author Previous Table-of-Contents O'FLAHERTY, LIAM (continued) Spring Sowing, (ss) Mar 8 1924 The Best British Short Stories of 1924 Three Lambs, (ss) Great British Short Stories Great British Short Stories Classic Irish Short Stories Two Lovely Beasts, (ss) The Forms of Fiction Threshold, (ss) Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing Vol. 1 , ed. Nicholas Royle, London: Quartet 1998 OGILVIE, YSEULT Blow-Out, (ss) The London Magazine Mammoth Book of New Erotica , ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 1998 (books) Introduction, (in) Famous Irish Ghost Stories OH, MADELEINE La Deesse Terre, (ss) Wicked Words 6 , ed. Kerri Sharp, Black Lace 2002 The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3 ; pseudonym of J. D. Munro Dicks, Digits, Dildos, (ss) Ripe Fruit , ed. Marcy Sheiner, Cleis 2002 The Best American Erotica 2004 London Derriere, (ss) , ed. Marcy Sheiner, Cleis 2002 The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3 Are We Leaving Tomorrow?, (ss) New Yorker Short Stories from The New Yorker Christmas Poem, (ss) 1964 All Problems Are Simple and Other Stories , ed. Robert Benard, Dell 1988

66. Tillie Olsen, 1913-2007 « Truly Outrageous tillie olsen, author, labor activist, feminist, died on Monday at the age of 94. From NYTimes. A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for http://trulyoutrageous.wordpress.com/2007/01/03/rip-tillie-olsen-1913-2007/

@import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/pool/style.css?m=1192568657 ); Truly Outrageous Blog Everything you wanted to know about petitpoussin* Tillie Olsen, 1913-2007 ... the forg Tillie Olsen, author, labor activist, feminist, died on Monday at the age of 94. From NYTimes A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for time to write, Ms. Olsen drew from her personal experiences to create a small but influential body of work. Her first published book, “Tell Me a Riddle” (1961), contained a short story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” in which the narrator painfully recounts her difficult relationship with her daughter and the frustrations of motherhood and poverty. At the time of the book’s publication Ms. Olsen was heralded by critics as a short story writer of immense talent. The title story was made into a film in 1980 starring Melvyn Douglas and Lila Kedrova Ms. Olsen returned to issues of feminism and social struggle throughout her work, publishing a nonfiction book, “Silences,” in 1978, an examination of the impediments that writers face because of sex, race or social class. Reviewing the book in The New York Times Book Review, Margaret Atwood attributed Ms. Olsen’s relatively small output to her full life as a wife and mother, a “grueling obstacle course” experienced by many writers. “It begins with an account, first drafted in 1962, of her own long, circumstantially enforced silence,” Ms. Atwood wrote. “She did not write for a very simple reason: A day has 24 hours. For 20 years she had no time, no energy and none of the money that would have bought both.”

67. Sample Close Reading Of Lines From Tillie Olsen Poem Lines 8597 of tillie olsen s first published poem I Want You Women Up North to Know contain the climactic turning point of this poem, and the language http://www.uah.edu/aaww/samplecr_olsen.htm

Sample Close Reading: 586 words (Used in Dr. Bollinger's class) The Climax of "I Want You Women Up North to Know" Lines 85-97 of Tillie Olsen's first published poem "I Want You Women Up North to Know" contain the climactic turning point of this poem, and the language and form reflect this change. Instead of being humble and disjointed victims who remain mostly anonymous, the workers are transformed into an angry and unified group of distinct individuals. This shift in mood is accomplished by three devices: imagery, grouping, and capitalization of proper names. The imagery in this passage helps turn the tone of the poem from victimization to anger. In addition to fire images, the overall language is completely stripped down to bare ugliness. In previous lines, the sordidness has been intermixed with cheerful euphemisms: the agonizing work is an "exquisite dance" (24); the trembling hands are "white gulls" (22); the cough is "gay" (25). But in these later lines, all aesthetically pleasing terms vanish, leaving "sweet and blood" (85), "naked [and] bony children" (89), and a "skeleton body" (95). Another way this passage turns the mood of the poem is by using grouping and form to link the workers together, both in inference and appearance. Previously, each worker’s situation has been treated as an isolated story, literally separated from the others by a blank line. However, lines 85-97 are crowded together without spaces, suggesting unity by the very appearance of the lines. All of the grievances are briefly repeated, and then a sequence of "ands" binds the one-sentence recaps together. Yet in spite of this sense of solidarity, each person’s story is given its own sentence with a period boundary, subtly emphasizing their individual importance: solidarity is acceptable, but anonymity is not.

68. Olsen, Tillie; Tell Me A Riddle olsen, tillie. Tell me a Riddle. Faber Faber 1961 First U. K. Edition H Cloth author s first book. .jacket soiled with several light stains, lateral tear http://www.ilab.org/db/book1370_528445.html

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69. Powell's Books - Tell Me A Riddle (89 Edition) By Tillie Olsen This collection of four stories, I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, what Ship?, O Yes, and Tell me a Riddle, had become an American classic. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28734&cgi=product&isbn=0385290

70. Working-Class Fiction Writer Tillie Olsen, 94 - Washingtonpost.com tillie olsen, 94, a chronicler of the working class whose few published works included some of the most critically acclaimed stories in modern American http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301788.

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71. Our Bodies Our Blog: Author And Feminist Press Adviser Tillie Olsen Dies At 94 January 03, 2007. Author and Feminist Press Adviser tillie olsen Dies at 94. From tillie olsen s obituary in The New York Times, written by Julie Bosman http://ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/01/author_and_feminist_press_adviser_tilli

Health Resource Center About Us Publications Press Room ... Main January 03, 2007 Author and Feminist Press Adviser Tillie Olsen Dies at 94 From Tillie Olsen's obituary in The New York Times , written by Julie Bosman: A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for time to write, Ms. Olsen drew from her personal experiences to create a small but influential body of work. Her first published book, "Tell Me a Riddle" (1961), contained a short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," in which the narrator painfully recounts her difficult relationship with her daughter and the frustrations of motherhood and poverty. At the time of the book’s publication Ms. Olsen was heralded by critics as a short story writer of immense talent. The title story was made into a film in 1980 starring Melvyn Douglas and Lila Kedrova. Ms. Olsen returned to issues of feminism and social struggle throughout her work, publishing a nonfiction book, "Silences," in 1978, an examination of the impediments that writers face because of sex, race or social class. Reviewing the book in The New York Times Book Review, Margaret Atwood attributed Ms. Olsen’s relatively small output to her full life as a wife and mother, a "grueling obstacle course" experienced by many writers. "It begins with an account, first drafted in 1962, of her own long, circumstantially enforced silence," Ms. Atwood wrote. "She did not write for a very simple reason: A day has 24 hours. For 20 years she had no time, no energy and none of the money that would have bought both."

72. Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureTillie Lerner Olsen - Author Page tillie Lerner olsen (b. 1912). Texts. In the Heath Anthology. I Want You Women Up North to Know (1934) Tell Me a Riddle (1961). Other Works http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/ols

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. Texts In the Heath Anthology I Want You Women Up North to Know Tell Me a Riddle Other Works RequaI in Best American Short Stories Yonnondio: From the Thirties Silences Dream-Vision Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: A Daybook and Reader, editor Comments and Excerpts from Manuscripts in First Drafts: Forty Years of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford Cultural Objects There are no Cultural Objects for this author. Would you like to add a Cultural Object? Pedagogy There are no pedagogical assignments or approaches for this author. Links Tillie Olsen's Life http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/life.htm A biography written by Constance Coiner, part of the Modern American Poets Site. Secondary Sources Site Map Partners Press Releases Company Home ... Privacy Statement , and Trademark Information

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