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The works of C. L. Moore

Carmina A.M. Escalante
 * //__C.L. Moore:__//** **__A Woman of Science Fiction__**

One of the first women to write in the science fiction genre, C.L. Moore was said to have paved the path for many other young female science fiction writers to take up their pen and paper and exhibit their talents of story-telling through her stories and style. C.L. Moore was born on January 24, 1911 with the birth name of Catherine Lucille Moore, in the town of Indianapolis, Indiana. Moore’s love for literature developed in her early childhood years because of her health preventing her from exerting much energy. During the Great Depression, Moore left college and began working at Fletcher Trust Company and it was then that Moore began working on writings that she were published in pulp magazines in the 1930s. It was then that Moore’s career as a science fiction writer took off. Moore’s stories often displayed ideas and rebellion against many social issues, the biggest issue being the limited rights of women both in government and in the society of the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s which also happened to be what would be considered as the “Golden Age of Science Fiction.” In this time, as can be seen through history, men were the dominant superior gender. Men were the ones who usually worked and brought home the money, held the highest seat in the house and made most of the decisions while the women sat back, were submissive to their husbands, quiet, and were only good for cleaning, cooking, washing the clothes and the dishes, and doing other domestic chores, and participating in “womanly” activities such as cookie parties. Women were not allowed to wear “men’s clothing” and always had to look beautiful. Moore’s rebellion is evident in her story, **//No Woman Born//**, which was the story of a woman who lost her beautiful body in a fire and lived the rest of her life in the body of a robot. After meeting her husband, another science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, Moore began publishing stories in collaboration with her husband. Stories such as //Mimsy Were the Borogroves// combined Moore’s style with Kuttner’s talent for story-telling. Moore spent a majority of life writing science fiction stories that presented issues such as women’s rights. Moore died on April 4, 1987 in Hollywood, California after suffering from the Alzheimer’s disease.

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