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Jeanne Rowling Research Paper

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Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital outside Bristol and grew up in England and in south-east Wales.Her father was an aircraft engineer and her mother was a science technician where Joanne herself went to school. Developing and growing up, she had always loved to be around books, she wrote her first book at age 6, a book titled "Rabbit". Joanne Rowling is known for her world sensation series " Harry Potter", which she first got the inspiration while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. She then spent the next five years or so, mapping and planning her ideas and thoughts out, mainly on scrap pieces on paper and notes which eventually turned into all seven books of the Harry Potter series. …show more content…

But about two and a half decade ago, things were not looking up for Joanne Rowling. A few months after her first thoughts of Harry Potter, her mother fell ill and died of multiple sclerosis, her inner grief and despair heavily affected her writing and was channeled deeply into the first Harry Potter book. Despite her feelings, she set out to a new job in Portugal, where she met and married a Portuguese television journalist in 1992. After going through a rough miscarriage and then conceiving her first child named Jessica on July 27th of 1993, Joanne and her husband ended up separating due to what most sources reported as domestic abuse. Moving to Scotland to be near her newly-married sister while pushing a baby carriage with one arm and holding a suitcase with three chapters of Harry Potter already written with the other, was the best choice she could make at that moment. Joanne saw herself as a failure, a jobless single mother, with a child no bigger than a teddy bear. But she managed to convince herself it was liberating and she focused on writing Harry

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