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Olive Hamilton. The fourth daughter of Samuel and Liza. Olive becomes a teacher, which makes her family proud. She is the mother of the narrator of the novel (and indeed, in real life, the mother of John Steinbeck). Mollie Hamilton. The youngest daughter of Samuel and Liza. Mollie is the lovely one, the sweetheart of the family.
Jun 18, 2003 · Mother Olive Steinbeck. Father John Ernst Steinbeck. Steinbeck hardly knew his grandfather, Samuel Hamilton, who died in 1904, when Steinbeck was two. "He died when I was quite young," Steinbeck wrote, "but it is remarkable how much I remember about him." Samuel was a dreamer, an inventor, an idealist, a maker.
Mar 5, 2024 · Olive Hamilton was the mother of the Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck. Olive Hamilton was born in 1866 or 1867 in San Jose, California. She was the daughter of Samuel Hamilton and Elizabeth (Fagen) Hamilton.
Olive (Hamilton) Steinbeck Olive is the mother of John and Mary . She is a devoted and capable woman who is fiercely intelligent but also hopelessly stubborn.
His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley —called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" — Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent ...
Jun 18, 2003 · Olive Hamilton becomes a teacher who yearns for metropolitan life. "She was as intuitive as a cat. Her acts were based on feelings rather than thoughts. She had her mother's firm chin and button nose and her father's fine eyes. She was the most definite of any of the Hamiltons except her mother.
Steinbeck’s mother, born Olive Hamilton, was a former school teacher who enforced high academic standards for her children and encouraged a love of literature. John Steinbeck had three sisters: two older sisters Esther and Beth, and a younger sister Mary, whom Steinbeck was close to throughout their childhood together.
