1. Ahead of My Time
The first generation of modernist women writers were born during the crisis times leading up to the Civil War and came of age during the American awakening in the cultural tumult of Reconstruction. ... She was a brave and strong minded person; she was diagnosed with breast cancer and I believe that her suicide was a form of protesting society and letting everyone know that she could choose all the way to her end, she wrote on a note "chose chloroform over cancer" before committing suicide. ...
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