... had been busy collecting old English words and names of maps and towns of England. In 1990 Rowling was determined to write a book using these words about an orphaned boy, who is mistreated by his aunt and uncle and finds himself being a Wizard. In 1991 Rowling had written almost 10 different 1st chapters for the book Harry Potter. When Rowling was 26, she went ... to teach English as a second language (ESL) in Oporto, Portugal. There Rowling married a man by the name of Jorge Artantes, who was a Portuguese television journalist. In 1993, Joanne and Jorge had a daughter named Jessica. Th...

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