Outline from Khayla, Margaret, and Nicole

· Leigh Hunt

-(who was this person?.....) author’s biography

-what did he write? (themes)

-why was he famous (why was he picked for Harper’s?)

· Events occurring in 1850s

-America’s relation to the world (international relations)

-“A Paris Newspaper”

-“Ignorance of the English”

-education

-tensions leading up towards the Civil War

· The atmosphere, did it affect the tone and writing of the authors

-“Peace”

-“The Uses of Sorrow”

· Family

· The Miner’s Daughters

· Death of an Infant

-role of women in the family in 1850s

-typical family

· Traveling

· Scenery of the Erie Railroad

-feeling of movement (railroads, canals, steamboats, etc…)