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Short presentation about Tracy Chevalier made by students of Segundo Bachillerato

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Tracy chevalier

• Tracy chevalier was born in 19 October in 1862 .

• She is from Washington.

• When she was a child she liked reading books because she says:

• “As a kid I'd often said I wanted to be a writer because I loved books and wanted to be associated with them.”

Tracy chevalier

• was graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland and later leaving her job in 1993, she began a year-long M.A in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Tracy chevalier• She is 47 years old now.

• She lives in London with her husband and son.

• She writes history novel’s books. Her books are fiction books but with a history context. The history context is about the thought of c.XVI – c.XVIII when women weren’t accepted as scientists or students because men beleived that they couldn’t think because they became crazy. Her books talk about many topics for example: women with scientific interest (a recent work), women’s arts interest and their great ability and women and men’s though in the time about desire.

Tracy has published six books.

The Virgin Blue

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Falling Angels

The Lady and the Unicorn

Burning Bright

Remarkable creatures

• Tracy Cheavlier adapted her book, Girl With A Pearl Earring, into a film and it was very succesfull

• One of her books, Falling Angels, is based in a real place, Highgate Cementery, London, England. The oldest section, holds an impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums and gravestones, plus elaborately carved tombs

For Tracy Chevalier Women's suffrage was very important, this is the right of women to vote

She published her first book in 1997. It was The Virgin Blue. A mysterious novel.

Girl with a Pearl Earring: A painting

Tracy Chevalier writes when she is always thinking about something.

Her ideas are inspired in a lot of places.

The Virgin Blue: The color blue

Falling Angels: A cemetery

The Lady and the Unicorn: A set of medieval tapestries

Burning Bright : William Blake

Remarkable Creatures: Mary Anning

Tracy Chevalier

Mary Anning

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