Anne Malcolmson (1910–2013)
Forfatter af The Song of Robin Hood
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Captain Ichabod Paddock, whaler of Nantucket 1 eksemplar
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The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 07: Legends of Long Ago (1900) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Malcolmson, Anne Burnett
- Andre navne
- von Storch, Anne Malcolmson
- Fødselsdato
- 1910-12-16
- Dødsdag
- 2013-01-27
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Dødssted
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Uddannelse
- Bryn Mawr College (BA|1933)
- Erhverv
- English teacher
author - Organisationer
- Central Intelligence Group (now Central Intelligence Agency)
Girls Latin School
Potomac School
International Red Cross - Kort biografi
- "From 1934 to 1946 she taught English in schools in New Haven, Connecticut, Chicago, and Washington, DC After an eight-year period of serving with the government, she returned to teaching English in McLean, Virginia, a position which she left in 1963 to work for a literary agency in Washington, D.C."
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The white man opened his prize first. There lay a pen and a bottle of ink. He knew well enough what to do with them. Without any further ado he pulled down a big piece of paper and began to write. He wrote figures, accounts, letters, stories, books, orders, laws, and anything that could be written with pen and ink.
Then the black man opened his big prize. He wept when he saw what it contained. Inside lay a plow and a hoe and a sickle and a pick and a shovel and an axe. These were the tools of hard work. He knew well enough what to do with them.
Ever since that day the white man has been figuring with his pen, sitting in an office in his store clothes; and the negro has been bending his back and straining his muscles, hoeing the corn and chopping the wood and picking the cotton and plowing the field.
This is why, said the slaves, the negro has to work so hard." -Time period use of the term "Negro" in reference to slaves from Africa.
Time period use of the term "pickaninny" in the story of John Henry. As a child he is referred to as a "pickaninny child" and as a man his child is referred to as "his pickaninny".… (mere)