Derick Burleson

Ejo

Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 Volume 7

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She took the law into her own hands Written for younger readers, Strong-Minded Woman provides an engaging look at the life of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin s first female lawyer. Telling Goodell s story from 1858, when she first decided to become a lawyer, to her place as an actual attorney in the courtroom, Mary Lahr Schier recounts Goodell s hard work and determination as she taught herself the law. Born in 1839 to abolitionist and transcendentalist parents, Lavinia Goodell grew up determined to change the world. As she met the runaway slaves that stayed at her childhood home and listened to the preaching of her church, Lavinia began to form her own ideas about the world. She decided to be a lawyer, even though her sister told her to stop "trying to be a man." Distributed for the Midwest History Press. "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780299170202
• ISBN-10: 0299170209
• Artikelnr.: 21091603

Autorenporträt

Derick Burleson is also the author of Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry, among other journals. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks and lives with his partner and daughter in Two Rivers, Alaska.