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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 ...
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (December 24, 1807 – November 2, 1834) was an American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan. She became the first female writer in the United States to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme. [1]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer.Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.