Just an interesting fact I thought it would be fun to know. :)
-Jane
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Random Connections
A while ago I was researching to see if Emily Baxter existed. If you don't know this already, she doesn't. But that's not the point. Anyways, I noticed that an author, Theodore Dreiser, was mentioned in the book: "There were three books: Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser; The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair; and Threnody, a volume of poetry by Emily Baxter" A little more research lead to the discovery that not only had Dreiser written a book based on the Grace Brown case (called An American Tragedy), but he had also been the one to inspire Jennifer Donnelly (the author) to write A Northern Light. Apparently she had read it when she was really young and ever since then she had wanted to learn as much as possible about the case. This eventually lead to her writing the book!
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Thats cool that she would give her inspirational author some credit in her book. Is the author of The American Tragedy still alive?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. He was mentioned in the book as an author, meaning his book was published and popular in 1906. So...
ReplyDeleteThat is a cool fact! It's pretty cool how writers inspire other writers who inspire other writers ... and so on. I think it would be neat to read Threnody to see what kind of things Emily (myself!-haha :) wrote about and to see what kind of things were found offensive in that time...
ReplyDeletewhat does 'threnody' mean?
ReplyDeleteNevermind;
ReplyDelete(It means Mass or Hymn)