Lady of the Oceans, Rachel Carson’s essays return

“I could have said with Emily Dickinson: I have never seen a moor, I have never seen the sea. Yet I know what the heather looks like, and what a wave looks like”. Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 near in Springdale, Pa. He grew up on a farm and listening to his mother Maria Frazier’s stories and readings, he developed an early interest in writing. At the age of eight he began writing stories. Two years later Rachel receives an award from a magazine for a story in which she elaborates on her brother’s experience as a military pilot. In 1932 he obtained a master’s degree in zoology at Johns Hopkins University. She grew up never having seen the sea before, she decides to specialize in marine biology. Upon graduation, she found employment in federal agencies involved in fisheries and marine research, where she began writing pamphlets and radio scripts. However, she soon finds herself obliged to support the entire family: her widowed mother, the two daughters of her dead sister, her niece who is seriously ill with diabetes. When she dies leaving an illegitimate child, she Rachel adopts him. To integrate her earnings, as well as out of passion, she writes articles and essays, often signing them only with initials for fear of not being taken into consideration. Her turning point in her life and in her writing comes when she climbs – and is the first woman to do so – aboard the research vessel Albatros III.