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Elizabeth Wade White at age 18 in 1924 at Westover School. Elizabeth Wade White (June 8, 1906 – December 11, 1994) was an American writer, poet, and activist. [1] She was a lover of Valentine Ackland and wrote The Life of Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse, about the early American poet and first American writer to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.
Anne was born in Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. [6]Due to her family's position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678. As England's contact with the Americas increased after the 1490s, English explorers sometimes included verse with their descriptions of the New World up through 1650, the year of Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse", which was written in America (most likely in Ipswich, Massachusetts or North Andover, Massachusetts) and ...
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a book by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Fogel and Engerman argued that slavery was an economically rational institution and that the economic exploitation of slaves was not as catastrophic as presumed, because there were financial incentives for slaveholders to maintain a basic level of material support ...
"Contemplations" is a 17th-century poem by English colonist Anne Bradstreet. The poem's meaning is debated, with some scholars arguing that it is a Puritan religious poem while others argue that it is a Romantic poem .
The Bradstreet Gate (2010) Bradstreet Gate is a wrought-iron gate across Quicny Stree and Cambridge Street from Memorial Hall. [14] In 1997 it was dedicated to Anne Bradstreet on the 25th anniversary of female students living in Harvard's freshman dormitories. [15] [16] [17] A plaque with a quote from one of Bradstreet's poems was added in 2003 ...
— John 1:5, New King James Version [15] English translations of this verse often translate the Greek κατελαβεν as 'understanding' (such as in the New King James Version), but in other translations the meaning is given in terms of a struggle between darkness and light: "the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not ...
Luke 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Luke 's version of the Lord's Prayer and several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ . [ 1 ]