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  1. Harcourt Brace Original Film Series: Interview with Tillie Olsen by OLSEN, 1997-10-15
  2. TILLIE OLSEN: A Heart in Action, A Film by Ann Hershey
  3. Tillie Olsen and a feminist spiritual vision.
  4. Biography - Olsen, Tillie (1912-2007): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team, 2007-01-01
  5. Life in the Iron Mills, or The Korl Woman - with a Biographical Interpretation By Tillie Olsen -- First 1st Edition, Second 2nd Printing by Rebecca Harding Davis, 1972
  6. Olsen, Tillie (1913): An entry from SJP's <i>St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture</i> by Bryan Garman, 2000
  7. Critical Response to Tillie Olsen.
  8. the american audio prose library presents an interview with tillie olsen by Tillie Olsen, 1987-06
  9. Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Duaghters
  10. Yonnondio: From the Thirties by Tillie Olsen, 1974-01-01
  11. Silences. by Tillie. OLSEN, 1978-01-01
  12. Mothers & Daughters by Tillie Olsen; Julie Olsen Edwards; Estelle Jussim, 1987
  13. Tell Me A Riddle by Tillie Olsen, 1978
  14. Aperture: Mothers & Daughters, That Special Quality/No 107 by Tillie Olsen, Julie Olsen Edwards, et all 1987-07

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43. Daily Sundial Online: News
Poet shares stories with CSUN. tillie olsen talks about her writing experiences. tillie olsen s contribution to American life and literature is immense.
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Tillie Olsen talks about her writing experiences
By JASON CASTELLUCCI
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Tillie Olsen's contribution to American life and literature is immense. CSUN faculty, staff and students had the privilege Wednesday of meeting Olsen and hearing her discuss her collection of stories titled "Tell Me A Riddle" and other issues related to writing. Those attending the discussion were treated to Olsen's reading of her poetry and short fiction, her advice for writers, her political philosophy, and her ability to situate herself in and articulate the concerns of the historical moment. The highlight for many in attendance at the discussion was her reading of her poignant poem, "I Want You Women Up North To Know." It deals directly with the upper class's ignorance to the plight of immigrant workers producing the products purchased and prized by the nation's cultural elite. Strikingly contemporary Written in the 1930s, it is strikingly contemporary, as it prefigures current headlines exposing the exploitation of workers in sweat shops. Olsen was born in 1912 and began writing poems, journalism and a novel while attempting to earn a living as a tie presser, meat trimmer, domestic worker and waitress during the Great Depression.

44. American Short Story
tillie olsen. I Stand Here Ironing olsen, tillie (1913) gives a bibliography on biographical information as well as critical information on tillie olsen.
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"I Stand Here Ironing" Resources
Dorothy Minor
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The following resources will aid the development of the Unit of Practice on "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. Sites on Tillie Olsen: The Nebraska Center for Writers offers the following web site on Tillie Olsen, a Nebraska native. It provides a number of links to such items as a selection from Olsen's work, an interview with Olsen, and quotations from Olsen's work.
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm
On the next site, readers can post comments on Olsen's work and read what others think about the literature.
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This college newspaper site provides an interview with Tillie Olsen.
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The University of California at Santa Cruz provides an article in the University newspaper about Tillie Olsen Day.
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Olsen, Tillie (1913) gives a bibliography on biographical information as well as critical information on Tillie Olsen.
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45. Tillie Olsen Short Story Study
tillie olsen. tillie olsen, the author; Critical information on I Stand Here Ironing ; Important points concerning social history between 19301945;
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"I Stand Here Ironing" Application
Dorothy Minor
Tulsa Community College
Application Activities
Application Activity 1: Students will create a panel presentation using PowerPoint to provide information on the following areas:
  • Tillie Olsen, the author Critical information on "I Stand Here Ironing" Important points concerning social history between 1930-1945 Important points concerning political history between 1930-1945 Affects of the Depression on families, especially families with women as heads of household

Each member of the panel will choose a different area of focus from the list above. Each person's portion of the presentation should contain 20-30 slides, covering the necessary material. The presentation requires that the students consult a minimum of five resources, properly documented. Students should exhibit an understanding of the technology by incorporating some automatic timing devices, pictures captured from web sites, and/or sound or video. Students should be able to manipulate the technology skillfully so that the technology enhances the presentation rather than detracts from it. Students should include a correctly formatted Works Cited and internal citations as needed. Application Activity 2: Working in pairs, students will develop criteria for judging a web site. Once they have developed their criteria, they will locate two web sites on the subjects listed in Application Activity 1 and apply the criteria to the two web sites. These findings will be presented to the class as an oral presentation, using the web site at a presentation computer station along with their criteria posted on Write-On Cling Sheets supplied in class.

46. Granta: Tillie Olsen
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48. Tillie Olsen By Anne-Marie Cusac
tillie olsen. BY ANNEMARIE CUSAC. tillie olsen, THE BELOVED FICTION WRITER, IS SELF-EFFACING IN PERSON. I haven t published a lot of anything, she says.
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Tillie Olsen BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC TILLIE OLSEN, THE BELOVED FICTION WRITER, IS SELF-EFFACING IN PERSON. "I haven't published a lot of anything," she says. And she's partly right. Her output has been relatively small. But she makes up for that in quality. Most famous for the short-story collection Tell Me a Riddle (Dell, 1961), Olsen has the ability to imply whole lives in a few sentences. Here the speaker of "I Stand Here Ironing" looks back on the difficulties of young, single motherhood: "She was a miracle to me, but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily's father, who "could no longer endure" (he wrote in his good-bye note) "sharing want with us." "I was nineteen. It was the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the depression. I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake, when she saw me she would break into a clogged weeping that could not be comforted, a weeping I can hear yet." Olsen says she was born in 1912 or 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were working class Russian Jewish immigrants and were deeply involved in the Socialist Party, which her father served as state secretary. Once, Eugene Victor Debs, head of the Socialist Party, came to Omaha in celebration of his release from prison (he was incarcerated for protesting World War I). Olsen and her sister presented him with red rosesan event she recalls fondly.

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50. Tillie Olsen
In her generation, Cliff is rare and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power.” tillie olsen. Websites On Michelle Cliff.
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Michelle Cliff (1946 - ) Prepared by Jessie Brodwick, Kelly Geffert, Tamara Long,
Michelle Cliff, born on November 2, 1946, grew up in Jamaica and later moved to the United States. She grew up in Jamaica, part of the upper middle class of society. Her relatives were considered wealthy, although they possessed little. Growing up she read mostly English and American writers as well as French. Cliff began reading the works of Caribbean writers as an adult. She wanted to be a writer at a young age, but in her family it was considered “taboo” to be a writer. One of the more influential novels Cliff read as a child was The Diary of Anne Frank . Cliff began keeping a diary modeled after the novel. She was humiliated when her family found her diary and read it aloud all she had kept secret from them, and quit writing until she reached the age of thirty. She was educated in New York City and also at the Warburg Institute located at the University of London. There she attained a Ph.D. on the Italian Renaissance. She is accredited with such novels as Abeng No Telephone to Heaven Bodies of Water Free Enterprise History as Fiction, Fiction as History

51. Tillie Olsen
www.ReaAward.org. References. The Nebraska Center for Writers s analysis of tillie olsen s work. tillie olsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1912.
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www.ReaAward.org References The Nebraska Center for Writers's analysis of Tillie Olsen's work Tillie Olsen's ... at The Nebraska Center for Writers Tillie Olsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1912. The daughter of Russian immigrants, she was raised in a working class, socialist environment. Growing up during the Depression she did not go to college, but early on got caught up in the struggle for survival at whatever jobs she could find. Her novel about the Depression, Yonnondio was begun when she was 19. A portion of the manuscript appeared in 1934 in the second issue of The Partisan Review. In her biography for the magazine, she listed her occupations as tie presser, hack writer, model, housemaid, ice cream packer and book clerk. The novel was never finished and thought irretrievably lost. However, remnants were found among some old papers, pieced together and published in book form in 1973. She is the author of the short story collection, Tell Me A Riddle [1962], the novel Yonnondio: From the Thirties [1994], a book of essays, Silences [1978]. She is the editor of Mothers and Daughter: That special quality [] and Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, A Daybook and Reader []. The conflict between the demands of daily existence and the fulfillment of human potential is a theme that permeates Tillie Olsen's work. For twenty years, she was "silenced" as a writer while working to earn a living and single-handedly raising four daughters. "These are not natural silences, that necessary time for renewal," she said. "They are the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being but cannot."

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Tshirts African Cichlids I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.
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F: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997. R: I Stand Here Ironing, 1954; "Tell Me A Riddle," 1960. A: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997. N: Silences: When Writers Don't Write, 1965. K: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.

53. Films For The Humanities And Sciences - Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing"
Thu. May 13, 2004. tillie olsen I Stand Here Ironing . Can you imagine? That woman went on for pages just about ironing. Standing
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Fri. May 28, 2004 Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing" "Can you imagine? That woman went on for pages just about ironing. Standing there ironing!" said an unimaginative judge about Tillie Olsen’s well-known short story, submitted in a competition for a fellowship at Stanford University. Olsen credits that fellowship—which she won—as the catalyst that transformed her back into a professional writer after 20 years of motherhood. In this interview by historian Peter Carroll, Tillie Olsen—known for her powerful writings about the inner lives of the working poor, women, and minorities—discusses her autobiographical "Help Her to Believe," serendipitously renamed "I Stand Here Ironing." (17 minutes, color) Item:
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54. Films For The Humanities And Sciences - Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing"
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Fri. May 28, 2004 Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing" "Can you imagine? That woman went on for pages just about ironing. Standing there ironing!" said an unimaginative judge about Tillie Olsen’s well-known short story, submitted in a competition for a fellowship at Stanford University. Olsen credits that fellowship—which she won—as the catalyst that transformed her back into a professional writer after 20 years of motherhood. In this interview by historian Peter Carroll, Tillie Olsen—known for her powerful writings about the inner lives of the working poor, women, and minorities—discusses her autobiographical "Help Her to Believe," serendipitously renamed "I Stand Here Ironing." (17 minutes, color) Item:
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55. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Tillie Lerner Olsen - Author Page
tillie olsen s Life (http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/life.htm) A biography written by Constance Coiner, part of the Modern American Poets Site
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Texts In the Heath Anthology I Want You Women Up North to Know
Tell Me a Riddle

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RequaI in Best American Short Stories
Yonnondio: From the Thirties
Silences
Dream-Vision Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: A Daybook and Reader, editor Comments and Excerpts from Manuscripts in First Drafts: Forty Years of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford
Cultural Objects There are no Cultural Objects for this author. Would you like to add a Cultural Object? Pedagogy There are no pedagogical assignments or approaches for this author. Links Tillie Olsen's Life http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/life.htm A biography written by Constance Coiner, part of the Modern American Poets Site. Secondary Sources Site Map Partners Press Releases Company Home ... Privacy Statement , and Trademark Information

56. Studies Of Working-Class Literature
Better Red The Writing and Resistance of tillie olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. New York Oxford University Press, 1995. olsen, tillie. Silences.
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Studies of Working-Class Literature A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Aaron, Daniel. Writers on the Left. New York: Avon Books, 1969. Coiner, Constance. Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fictio n. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1976. Daniels, Jim Ray. No Pets. Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 1999.
Dimock, Wai Chee and Michael T. Gilmore, eds. Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations . New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Foley, Barbara. Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941. Durham: Duke UP, 1993. Hapke, Laura. Labor’s Text: The Worker in American Fiction. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Hicks, Granville. The Great Tradition , rev. ed. Biblo and Tannen, 1967, 1935. Hicks, Granville, Joseph North, Michael Gold, Paul Peters, Isidor Schneider and Alan Calmer, eds. Proletarian Literature in the United States . New York: International Publishers, 1935.

57. The New York Review Of Books: Tillie Olsen
Bibliography of books and articles by tillie olsen, from The New York Review of Books. The New York Review of Books. tillie olsen. From the Archives.
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You are Here Articles St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Article. tillie olsen Gale Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Bryan Garman.
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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 political activism. Her first short story, "The Iron Throat" (1934), was published in Partisan Review and reappeared as the first chapter to Yonnondio, Silences (1978). A fellowship to Stanford University enabled her to resume writing in 1957, when she began a collection of short fiction, Tell Me a Riddle St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , 2002 Gale Group.
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59. Mothering: Tillie Olsen - Living Treasure - Brief Article
You are Here Articles Mothering SeptOct, 2003 Article. tillie olsen.(Living Treasure)(Brief Article) Mothering, Sept-Oct, 2003.
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TILLIE OLSEN IS AN INTERNATIONALLY recognized literary writer and activist for the rights of working-class women. The daughter of refugees from political repression in Czarist Russia, Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1912 or 1913 (her birth certificate was lost). She dropped out of high school during the Depression and worked in South Omaha slaughterhouses and factories to support her family. The public library was her school, she explains, and, despite financial hardships, Olsen read voraciously. As a young adult active in the Communist Party, Olsen was arrested for organizing packinghouse workers and spent a month in jail. She did not begin writing full-time until the 1950s, when her youngest child started school. Olsen's writing focuses on the plight of America's underservedthe impoverished, African Americans, immigrants, women, and children. One of her most famous pieces, "I Stand Here Ironing," has been repeatedly anthologized. Her 1974 novel, Yonnondio, which took 40 years to write, was highly acclaimed as an indictment against poverty. In 1978 Olsen published Silences, a collection of essays dedicated to "our silenced people, century after century their linings consumed in the hard, everyday essential work of maintaining human life. Their art, which still they madeas their other contributionsanonymous; refused respect; recognition, lost."

60. Tillie Olsen Resources At Questia - The Online Library Of Books
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