Marjorie Hillis

Marjorie Hillis (1889 – 1971) marubuciya Ba’amurke ce ta shahararrun litattafai marasa almara na mata a cikin 1930s. Littafinta Live Alone da Like Yana ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun lakabi na shekaru goma. [1]

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Margaret Louise Hillis a Peoria, Illinois, Marjorie Hillis ita ce ta biyu cikin 'ya'ya uku na Dokta Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929), ministar Congregationalist, da Annie Louise Patrick Hillis (1862-1930), kanta marubucin da aka buga.  Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Brooklyn, New York, a cikin 1899, lokacin da mahaifin Marjorie ya zama fasto na Cocin Plymouth Congregational Church a can, wani mumbari da shahararren mai kashewa Henry Ward Beecher ya taɓa yi. Bayan kammala karatunta a Makarantar Miss Dana don Matasan Mata, wata makaranta mai zaman kanta a New Jersey, da tafiya zuwa ƙasashen waje har tsawon shekara guda, Marjorie ta tafi aikin rubuta rubutun ga littafin ƙirar mujallar Vogue .

 Aikin adabi 
A ƙarshe Hillis ya zama mataimakin editan Vogue . A shekara ta 1936, ta buga lambar ta takwas mai ba da labari na shekara, Live Alone and Like It, littafin shawara ga mata matasa kan yadda za su rayu da kansu.  An bi shi a cikin 1937 ta Orchids akan Budget ɗin ku, wanda ya zama mafi kyawun siyarwar ƙima na lamba biyar a waccan shekarar.  Orchids a kan Budget ɗin ku, wanda aka ƙaddamar da shi Live Smartly akan Abin da kuke da shi, an gina shi a kusa da "la'o'i" na hasashe wanda ya ƙarfafa mata su dace da burinsu tare da hanyoyin kuɗi.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
A cikin 1939, Hillis ya auri Thomas Henry Roulston, gwauruwa wanda ya mallaki jerin shaguna a Brooklyn. Ya mutu a shekara ta 1949.

Hillis ya mutu a shekara ta 1971. An binne ta tare da Roulston a makabartar Green-Wood a Brooklyn.

 Manazarta 

 Hanyoyin haɗi na waje 


 Scutts, Joanna (2017). The Extra Woman.
 "The Single Lady" Episode of What'sHerName Podcast with guest Joanna Scutts.
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