During the 1950s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, short stories, and columns, as. During the 1940s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula. She sheds light on the theory that many poems written by 'Anon' or 'Anonymous' in times past were most likely written by women - I had never considered this! She goes on to paint a picture of the oppression of women and their creative talents, and especially their lack of equal rights to men. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M.Ed. Ella breaks down the purpose of creating an anthology of poems written only by women, girls (some as young as 5 years old) and one non-binary writer. May I Bring a Friend, written by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers and illustrated by Beni Montresor, is a jewel-toned and playful story of a boy who is invited. Within her introduction, she tells us of the origin of her love of poetry after her beloved Granny had shared a poetry book with her when she was a young child. Author, Ella Risbridger has researched and brought together an incredible anthology of poems.
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