Author: Richard Young

A retired History and Politics high school teacher (1978-2008). Former Publisher/Managing Editor of The Beat Magazine (2009-2014). Freelance Writer. Proud Grandfather.

The Beat Magazine 2009 website needs content.

by Richard Young

The Beat Magazine 2009 website needs content. London area creative workers and arts and culture venues, do you have a gig, exhibit, play, or special event coming up? Let us know about it. Would you like us to prepare a Profile of you and your work? We do that, too. Contact Content Manager and Publisher, Richard Young, with the details at richardyoung@thebeatmagazine2009.ca

Today’s Quotable Quote About Writing: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

by Richard Young

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels that depict the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, but he did not receive critical acclaim until after his death; he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Today’s Quotable Quote About Writing: Frances Trollope.

by Richard Young

Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known.

She also wrote social novels: one against slavery is said to have influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she also wrote the first industrial novel, and two anti-Catholic novels, which used a Protestant position to examine self-making.

Some recent scholars note that modernist critics have omitted women writers such as Frances Trollope. In 1839, The New Monthly Magazine claimed, “No other author of the present day has been at once so read, so much admired, and so much abused”.

Two of her sons, Thomas Adolphus and Anthony, became writers, as did her daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope (née Ternan), second wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope.

(Source: Wikipedia)