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| Name: |
Tillie Olsen | | Birth Date: |
January 14, 1913 | | Place of Birth: |
Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer, educator |
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 Biography of Tillie Olsen
5,213 words, approx. 17 pages
 Tillie Olsen is a feminist and working-class author who began writing in the 1930s. Robert Coles commented in The Nation, "Everything Tillie Olsen has written has become almost immediately a classic." Though she is most famous for her shortstory... summary from source:
 Biography of Tillie Olsen
5,013 words, approx. 17 pages
Tillie Olsen, feminist and working-class writer,grew up in Wyoming and Nebraska, areas which have not often been the childhood homes of America's Jewish authors. This might explain why, despite the fact that some of her urban working-class characters... summary from source:
Biography of Tillie Olsen
4,722 words, approx. 16 pages
Long recognized as a feminist and a working-class writer, and more recently as a Jewish writer, Tillie Olsen has rarely been considered a writer of the American West. This may be because she deals with global human issues, trying to “recognize...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Olsen, Tillie (1913—) Summary
186 words, approx. 1 pages Tillie Olsen has given voice to constituencies that have traditionally been unrepresented in literature, particularly working-class women. Influenced by her socialist parents, Olsen joined the Young Communist League in 1931 and embarked on a career of... summary from source:
 Tillie Olsen Information
1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007)[1] was an American writer, associated with the political turmoil of 1930s and the first generation of American...
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 Femspec Tillie Olsen
01/01/2006: 673 words, approx. 2 pages Ardys of Berkeley Tillie Olsen died in Kaiser Hospital at the age of 94. I first remember encountering her story "I Stand Here Ironing," in a Women's Studies class when I was an undergraduate. The short story is narrated by a woman thinking... summary from source:
The Independent - London TILLIE OLSEN ; Powerful writer celebrated for the slenderness of her output
01/10/2007: 1,013 words, approx. 3 pages Tillie Olsen was an iconic American writer whose reputation rests on a slender published output of just five stories, collected in Tell Me a Riddle, and a novel, Yonnondio. Readers who value quality over quantity admire her capacity to pack short forms with intense... summary from source:
 AP News Alice Walker placing lit papers at Emory
12/18/2007: 360 words, approx. 1 pagesPulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library.The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," "By the Light of My Father's Smile" and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with... summary from source:
The New York Observer Queen of the Muckrakers\'d1 And Champion Letter-Writer
12/3/2006: 962 words, approx. 3 pagesI remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the area to dinner at her house, where by way of introducing her guests, in the sweetest possible manner, she went around the room telling a...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jean Pfaelzer
7,634 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Pfaelzer discusses the ways in which Olsen uses language and silence in Tell Me a Riddle to represent Eva's journey from alienation to engagement.
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Critical Essay by Rose Kamel
6,650 words, approx. 22 pages
In the essay below, Kamel discusses the elements which are common within Olsen's writings.
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Critical Essay by Bonnie Lyons
5,601 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Lyons argues that while Judaism shapes Olsen's work, her writing is most influenced by her experiences as a woman.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 83%A Mother's Helplessness in "I Stand Here Ironing"
580 words, approx. 2 pages
"I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen is a short story about a woman's anxiety in dealing with her daughter, Emily, during the Great Depression. Life's problems are too much to handle to the point she sees only pessimism where Emily is concerned. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 83%Tillie Olsen's, "iIStand Here Ironing", Maternal Apathy at Its Best
465 words, approx. 2 pages
In Tillie Olsen's, "I Stand Here Ironing", Maternal Apathy at Its Best, maternal apathy is indeed portrayed at its best. The guilt harbored by Emily's mother in regard to decisions, she felt had to be made, served to distant herself from her daughter.
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