Anne Bradstreet is perhaps one of the most well known American Puritans. Born Anne Dudley in Northampton, England in 1612, Bradstreet was one of the few women in American Puritan society that had been educated. Because of this education, Bradstreet faced a number of notable challenges when it came to maintaining her position in Puritan ...
The feminist movement in the world of literature has had a past made up of struggles to be heard by the male-dominated mainstream and attempts to retrace the past to find over-looked texts that had been previously ignored. Women writers from all over the world have taken part in this struggle. It was not until ...
Emily Dickinson’s poem “202 (185)” was originally sent to Samuel Bowles in a letter that is often referred to as Letter 220. Samuel Bowles became the publisher and editor of the newspaper Springfield Republican in 1844 and held that position until he died in 1878. He was also a close friend of Emily and her ...
Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley are, respectively, the first and third published female writers in America. The surprise to those unfamiliar with these writers comes upon discovery that Anne Bradstreet was also the first published poet in the New World, and that Phyllis Wheatley was an African slave. These two women not only overcame the ...
There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. Heavenly hurt it gives us; We can find no scar, But internal difference Where the meanings are Emily Dickinson is known as a very private and prolific American poet, who penned almost 2000 verses. Her work was intensely ...
In the late 1620s, a young Englishwoman sailed for America with her parents and husband. They landed at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, America’s Puritan settlement. Through her struggle with her new life straining to build a home and raise a family in a new country, Anne Bradstreet emerged as the New World’s first female poet. ...