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Passionate about fiction | Creator of #YouShouldveBeenAnEnglishMajor | Co-owner of @enger_grove | Book marketing coach: Good Enough Book Marketing. 👇🏻

*THANKSGIVING SPECIAL** Instead of a short quote

*THANKSGIVING SPECIAL**

Instead of a short quote for this week's #youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor , I am doing some storytelling. This video is about 20 minutes, but when you find some free time, it's worth the full watch!

When I first began studying literature in college, I assumed I was just there to examine stories already written and considered classics. What I didn't know (but grew to love), was that part of the job of those of us trying to celebrate a culture's stories and legends is to FIND those stories. That is particularly true of early eras where writers and artists were not recording verbatim the details of their heroes. In studying early America, the only written material we have are letters and journals, not literature. As a student, I combed through all these documents, learned how to research carefully and consider historical and cultural context, and pieced together my favorite stories of people (characters) that I found mentioned across multiple sources.

This is one such narrative that has had to be "pieced together" by scholars and historians to see the full narrative of this man's life. He didn't write his story down himself. It's important to note that this is a story of a Native American man that we only know about through documentation by White men. That said, most scholars across ideologies do find this story credible, mostly because we have multiple sources that all seem to agree on a similar narrative and personality of this man's life.

If you want to read the primary sources about him yourself, the two I pull from most for this story are "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford and "Mourt's Relations" by Edward Winslow.

This is one of my favorite stories of early America. And makes history really come alive! ( @hbo - I have a new mini series for you!)

Enjoy having the image of Thanksgiving given a little spice!

#youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor #thanksgiving #thefirstthanksgiving #americanheroes #americanliterature #amlit #nativeamericancharacters #tellnativestories #squanto #americanhistory

When the bottom of your sourdough bread looks pret

When the bottom of your sourdough bread looks prettier than the top! #sourdough #breadbaking #bread #artisanbread

Wintry afternoons. I appreciate them more at the b

Wintry afternoons. I appreciate them more at the beginning of the season. Ask me how beautiful I find snowy trees two months from now, and you will get a whole different mood…😜

George Eliot—whose real name was Mary Anne Evans

George Eliot—whose real name was Mary Anne Evans—was an English author. She chose a male pen name to escape the stereotype that fiction written by women lacked the depth of stories written by men. (Novelist Virginia Woolf, also British, would eventually say that Eliot's novels were one of the few English stories written for grown ups.)

Although Middlemarch is fiction, it is about reactionary views to real historical and political events: the rising popularity of railways, ascension of a new king, and changes to England's electoral voting system.

Perhaps, in this time of big change and short-term thinking, we should all be cracking the spine of this famous novel.
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#youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor #georgeeliot #georgeeliotquote #middlemarch #britishliterature #britlit #englishliterature #19thcenturyliterature #victorianliterature #victorianera #victorianeraliterature

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