Edwin Markham

Name:Charles Edwin Anson Markham

Born in: Oregon City in the Oregon Territory
born on April 23, 1852
7March 1940(pneumonia) (81 yrs old)
the son of Samuel Barzillai Markham and Elizabeth

Winchell
the youngest of ten children
In 1856, Charles moved with his mother and only
sister to a ranch in Lagoon Valley, northeast of San
Francisco. By the age of twelve, he was doing hard
labor on the family farm.
In 1872 he graduated from San Jose State Normal
School, and in 1873 finished his studies of classics
at Christian College in Santa Rosa.

in 1873- completed the classicalcourse and went on

to teach in El Dorado County.

In 1879- Markham was elected county
superintendent of schools and received the
principalship of the Tompkins Observation School in
Oakland in 1890.
Joaquin Miller, Donna Coolbrith, Charles Warren
Stoddard, and Edmund Clarence Stedman
(friends)
Markham dropped the name Charles in about 1895
and became Edwin. In 1898
In 1898, Markham married his third wife Anna
Catherine Murphy and in 1899 their son Virgil was
born,"collaborator and editor" until her death in
1938.

1st wife: Annie Cox in 1875

They relocated to Placerville, California, where

Markham was employed as a school

administrator
Markham's first marriage failed in 1884 (affair
with Elizabeth Senter; Senter died in 1885)
2nd wife: Caroline Bailey 1887-(died in 1893)

In 1901- They moved to New York City, where

they lived in Brooklyn and then Staten Island

a huge personal library of 15 000+ volumes
Wagner College's Horrmann Library, located
on Staten Island
In 1922, Markham's poem "Lincoln, the Man of
the People" was selected from 250 entries to
be read at the dedication of the Lincoln
Memorial.
Edwin's correspondents included Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Ambrose Bierce, Jack and Charmian
London, Carl Sandburg, Florence Earle Coates
and Amy Lowell

Edwin Markham's Works:

Poetry
The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems - (1899)
Lincoln and Other Poems - (1901)
The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems - (1913)
Gates of Paradise - (1920)
Eighty Poems at Eighty - (1932)
The Ballad of the Gallows Bird - (published 1960)
Prose
Children in Bondage (1914)
California the Wonderful (1914)

The Plot
Originally,E. M. Forster, an English novelist, defined

for the first time in 1927

Literary term defined as the events that make up a
story, particularly as they relate to one another in a
pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how
the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.
An intricate, complicated plot is called animbroglio,
but even the simplest statements of plot may include
multiple inferences, as in traditionalballads.
is the gist of a story, and composed of causal events,
which means a series of sentences linked by "and so.

Plot is a causeandeffect sequence of events

It should be added that, in a certain

case,Syuzhet, literary phraseology, is

translated as "Plot," that this usage coexists
alongside the definition that was determined
by the causality. In short, Syuzhet means how
we know a sequence ofdiscoursethat was
sorted out by the(implied) Author.This article
deals largely with a causal plot.
mainly used in fiction writing.