Tillie Olsen

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Standard Name: Olsen, Tillie
Birth Name: Tybile Lerner
Self-constructed Name: Tillie
Pseudonym: Tillie the Toiler
Self-constructed Name: Matilda
Self-constructed Name: Theresa Landale
Self-constructed Name: Theta Larimore
Self-constructed Name: Amy
Married Name: Tillie Goldfarb
Married Name: Tillie Olsen
Pseudonym: Emily Hulot Olsen
Nickname: The Squeakeress
TO , one of the leading lights of the twentieth-century feminist movement in the USA, prided herself on being a proletarian writer. She published very few books: a short-story volume, a novel, a book of essays, jottings and quotations about the silencing of writers, and an anthology on mothers and daughters. It is unusual for such a slim output to have such a profound effect on a generation of readers. TO was prolific, though, in poetry and political (pro-Communist) journalism and speeches during the 1930s and much later in essays and lectures, many of them about forgotten women writers.

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Textual Features Ali Smith
The volume features 101 different women writers, each publication emblematic of the year for which its author is featured. Its contents range from the title-inspiring Miles Franklin 's My Brilliant Career (1901) through Edith Wharton

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