Jessie Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Megan Nguyen

Bibliography

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Theme and Connection

Touche

The theme of the poem Touche is love and reminiscing. It is talking about a love interest and past interests. Jessie had wrote about how a women and her significant other had loved each other but compared their significant other to someone of the past. Word and phases that help show the theme of love and reminiscing are when in the poem it says "'Loving and 'doving' as all lovers do," and "Her you loved first in that dim long ago--". The poem Touche has the theme of love and reminiscing very clearly through out it.

This poem has a very close relation to Jessie Fauset's life. Jessie Fauset was married to Herbert Harris in 1929. It also relates to her life because finding someone beautiful that didn't have blonde hair or blue eyes was not usual. In Jessie Fause's life, there was so much false information that you weren't beautiful if you weren't Caucasian. The poem Touche is related to her life and the theme was love.

Facts cont.

Facts of Jessie

• Jessie wrote for the magazine called The Crisis, which was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois who hired Jesssie as a publication's literary editor
• While Jessie was an editor, she encouraged many writers. She encouraged writers like Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Claude McKay.
• Fauset wrote four novels, which all had characters who had trials with prejudice and missed or restricted opportunities. The four books she wrote were There is Confusion, Plum Bun, Chinaberry Tree, and Comedy: American Style.
• Jessie Fauset married a business man named Herbert Harris in 1929. They lived together in New Jersey until Herbert died and then Jessie moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she later died.
• Jessie Fauset was once a french teacher at Douglass High School, later known as Dunbar High School.

• Jessie Fauset was born in Camden County, New Jersey on April 27, 1882. She died on April 30, 1961, at age 79, of a heart attack.
• Jessie's father, Redmon Fauset, was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and her mother was Annie Seamon Fauset. Jessie had ten siblings in total, seven full siblings and three step siblings.
• Langston Hughes once called her one of the "midwives" of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Jessie Fauset was the first African-American woman to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the only African-American to graduate
• Fauset was the co-editor on the book Brownie's Book, which the goal of the book was to teach African-American of their heritage. The book was published monthly from 1920-1921.
• Jessie Fauset once said "Being colored in America at any rate means: Facing the ordinary difficulties of life, getting education, work, in fine getting a living plus fighting everyday against some inhibition of natural liberties"
• One of Jessie's students remembered 60 years later that he had first heard the word "ubiquitous" from Jessie