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Martha Wadsworth Brewster (April 1, 1710 – c. 1757) was an 18th-century American poet and writer.She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution and was the first American-born woman to publish under her own name.
For example, she wrote several proto-feminist poems about the Daughters of Liberty, a group of women active in protesting British policies in the Thirteen Colonies. "The Female Patriots" [ 5 ] (1768) contains references that are implicitly critical of the Sugar Act 1764 and the Townsend Duties of 1767, which were measures intended to raise ...
The poets represented in Poems by Eminent Ladies are diverse in terms of literary reputation and degree of critical and commercial success, literary school or style, and social, economic, and cultural background. Together, they help the editors make a case for including women writers in the national literary tradition: "The Ladies, whose pieces ...
Annis Boudinot Stockton (July 1, 1736 – February 6, 1801) was an American poet, one of the first women to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.Living in Princeton, New Jersey, Stockton wrote and published her poems in leading newspapers and magazines of the day and was part of a Mid-Atlantic writing circle.
Jennie Thornley Clarke (September 20, 1860 – December 27, 1924) was an American educator, writer, and anthologist.She was the author of Songs of the South.Choice Selections from Southern Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day.
A gifted young scholar, her father provided an unusually good education for a young woman of this period. [1] She was the first of a number of prolific women poets whose works were published in the colonies. [2] Born in Boston, she was the only daughter of Dr. Benjamin Colman, a clergyman and writer.
Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...
The experience of women in early New England differed greatly and depended on one's social group acquired at birth. Puritans , Native Americans , and people coming from the Caribbean and across the Atlantic were the three largest groups in the region, the latter of these being smaller in proportion to the first two.