Kate Harrington (mawakiya)

**Kate Harrington**, An  haife ta ne  a matsayin **Rebecca Harrington Smith** bayan daga Baya kuma ta kuma **Rebecca Smith Pollard**, ta kasance  malama ce a kasar Amurka , marubuciya kuma mawakiya.

## Tarihin rayuwarta
An haife ta ne a  Garin Allegheny, Pennsylvania a ranar 20 ga watan Satumba, ta shekarar 1831. Ta shafe shekarunta mafi yawa a Iowa. Mahaifinta, wato Farfesa Nathaniel Ruggles Smith, ya kasance marubuci ne kuma mai iko a kan Shakespeare, wanda fassarorin ya sami hankalin Edwin Forrest da John Wilkes Booth. Ayyukan mahaifinta a kan gabatarwar jama'a ya zama tushen Samuel Kirkham's English Grammar, wanda ya tabbatar da tasiri sosai ga Ibrahim Lincoln. Ta auri mijinta Wanda ya kasance mawakine kuma edita a  Birnin New York Oliver I. Taylor . Harrington shi ne marubucin da ba a san shi ba na Emma Bartlett, ko Prejudice and Fanaticism, amsar almara ga Uncle Tom's Cabin, wanda aka nufa don fallasa munafuncin Know-Nothingism.

Iyalin Harrington sun koma Ohio, sannan Kentucky, inda Harrington ta yi aiki a matsayin malama. Daga baya, tayi  koyar wa a Birnin Chicago. Harrington ta zauna a biranen Iowa daban-daban, gami da Farmington, Keosauqua, Burlington, Ft. Madison da Keokuk. Ta fara aikin rubuce-rubuce tare da Louisville Journal, wanda editansa ya yi adawa da rabuwa. Samuel Clemens daga baya zai tuna "tsayar da" nau'in wasu waƙoƙinta da aka buga a ofishin jaridar ɗan'uwansa.

A cikin wasiƙunta daga Prairie Cottage, Harrington ta haɗa da kusurwar yara tare da labaru game da horar da kiwon dabbobi da kuma cat wanda ya karbi 'yan marayu. Harrington ta kuma rubuta wasu littattafan yara, ciki har da na firamare da mai rubutu. Ayyukanta a Pollard a fagen karatu sun wakilci ƙoƙari na farko dangane da ƙirƙirar shirin karatu na tsari mai zurfi, cikakke tare da jagorar malami daban da rubutun kalmomi da littattafai masu karatu, da kuma motsawa cikin jerin masu karatu na wallafe-wallafen.

Jerin ta yana da mahimmanci ga babban alaƙa da koyarwar ga rubutu da karatu, saboda nuna damuwarta ga bukatun yara, don shigar da kiɗa cikin tsarin koyon karatu, kuma a matsayinta na mai gabatarwa ga wasu tsarin sauti. An yi amfani da masu karatu a kowace jiha a cikin Tarayyar kuma har yanzu ana amfani da su a Keokuk, Iowa, har zuwa 1937. Mata kalilan ne suka ba da gudummawa sosai ga fannin karatu.

A shekarar 1869, ta wallafa wani littafinta na waka mai taken *Maymie*, a matsayin girmamawa ga 'yarta mai shekaru goma da ta mutu a wannan shekarar.

*Emma Bartlett* ta sami ra'ayoyi masu ban sha'awa lokacin da aka buga shi a shekarar 1856. Jaridar Ohio Statesman ta ba ta kyakkyawan bita amma Cincinnati Times ta ce, "Mun karanta wannan littafin. Mun furta makircin kyakkyawan kuma salon yana da kyau, amma ta kasa cika manufar littafin. "Ya zarge ta da nuna nuna nuna bambanci da tsattsauran ra'ayi na 'yan siyasa da ta yi ƙoƙarin karewa.

A cikin shekarar 1870, Harrington ya buga In Memoriam, Maymie, a watan Afrilu 6th, ta shekarar 1869, wani tunani game da mutuwa da wahala, wanda aka rubuta a lokacin mutuwar yarinyar Harrington.

A shekarar 1876, Harrington ta buga *Centennial, da Sauran Waƙoƙi*, don tunawa da cika shekaru ɗari na Samarwan 'yancin kai, da kuma baje kolin Centennial a Philadelphia, baje kolin duniya na farko da aka gudanar a Kasar Amurka. Girman ya haɗa da waƙoƙi da yawa game da Iowa, da kuma waƙoƙin da aka zaɓa na mahaifin Harrington, Farfesa N.R. Smith, da kuma zane-zane na wuraren Centennial a Philadelphia.

Kate Harrington, ko kuma  Rebecca Harrington Smith Pollard tayi  rubuta duk rayuwarta. Tana da shekaru 79 lokacin da ta samar da waka, "Althea" ko "Morning Glory," wanda ke da alaƙa da Iowa. Ta mutu a Ft. Madison a ranar 29 ga Mayu, 1917. An binne ta a Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa .

## Bayanan littattafanta

*  Harrington,Kate (1876). centennial and other poems.kessinger 

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