Marie L. Shedlock

Marie Louise Shedlock (1854–1935) ta kasance ƙwararren mai ba da labari . Ta rubuta shawarwarinta kan yadda ake yin bahasi a baki a cikin littafinta mai suna The Art of the Story-Teller .

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi Shedlock a Boulogne, Faransa, iyayenta 'yan Ingila ne; mahaifinta injiniya ne da ke taimakawa wajen gina layin dogo. Duk da cewa ta zauna a Ingila na ɗan gajeren lokaci tun tana ƙarama, ta koma Faransa, kuma daga ƙarshe ta tafi Jamus don kammala karatunta. 

Aikin Shedlock na farko shine malamar makaranta. Ta koyar da makaranta a Ingila tun tana da shekaru 21. Tana da shekaru 36 ta fara aikinta a matsayin mai ba da labari, inda ta fara wasan kwaikwayo a Landan. Tana da shekaru 46 ta daina koyarwa ta fara aikinta a matsayin mai ba da labari . Ta yi rangadin yawon shakatawa guda biyu masu tsawo kuma masu karɓuwa a Amurka.

Rangadin Shedlock na farko a Amurka ya faru ne a kusan shekarar 1900 kuma ya ɗauki shekaru bakwai. Mary Wright Plummer, darektan ɗakin karatu na Pratt Institute, ta halarci ɗaya daga cikin waƙoƙinta na jama'a kuma ta gayyace ta ta yi wasa.  Anne Carroll Moore, shugabar ɗakin karatu na yara a Pratt, ta gayyaci Shedlock da ta koma Pratt ta ba da labarai ga yara.  Rangadinta na farko a Amurka ya ɗauki shekaru bakwai. Bayan wannan rangadin farko, Shedlock ta koma Landan, daga baya ta rubuta littattafanta guda biyu.  Rangadin Shedlock na biyu a Amurka ya fara ne a shekarar 1915 kuma ya ɗauki shekaru biyar.

Shedlock ya mutu a watan Janairun 1935.

 Tasiri ga wasu 
Anna Cogswell Tyler, ɗaliba a Pratt, ta ji Shedlock yana wasa kuma ta yanke shawarar zama ƙwararren mai ba da labari. Daga ƙarshe Tyler ta zama shugabar bayar da labarai ga Laburaren Jama'a na New York.  Ruth Sawyer ta ji Shedlock yana karanta tatsuniyoyin Hans Christian Andersen a Jami'ar Columbia. Sawyer "ya yi alƙawarin zama mai ba da labari a wannan ranar." 

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   (1920)





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