... intelligent and strong poet. In such works as "The Prologue", Bradstreet shows that she was both angry and against the role that were given to women during her time. They were seen as being intellectually inferior to men and the only place they had in society was at home, tending to their ... husband and children. The following stanza from "The Prologue" is Bradstreets feeling towards the criticism she received from being a female writer and it explains how men saw women at this time: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits; A poet's pen all scorn I sho...

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... , educated, and came from a prosperous and deeply religious family. She was a mother of 14, and a very dynamic speaker. She held prayer meetings, where women debated religious and ethical ideas. Her beliefs that the Holy Spirit dwells within a justified person and so is not based on the good works necessary for admission to ... very seriously as an intellectual, and a poet (McGiffert, 118). Her "apologies" were more likely ironic than sincere. She was responding to those Puritans who felt women should be silent, modest, and living in the private, rather than the public areas. She was qui...

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... authors. Anne Dudley Bradstreet was America's first poet at a woman. She was born in England and lived a luxury lifestyle as a child. "Her upbringing was influenced by her father's position ;"( Notable Women Ancestors) he was the chief steward of the vast estates of Theophilus Clinton, the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. Her father made it so that she had private tutors and also ... to be printed in England under the title, "The Tenth Muse". "As a Puritan woman of the seventeenth-century, Anne Bradstreet struggled to write poetry in a society that was intimidating" (Notable Women Ancestors). A...

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... of the estates of the earl of Lincoln. A woman's education was limit back then if they even got any. Although because of her father's position she was an well-educated women. She had unlimited access to the "great library of the manor" were she started reading the writings of some of the greatest authors. Anne was also educated by the best ... ...

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... Author to Her Book", think she doubts her writing talent. She really wasn't poor so some people could not understand why she was writing, because in that day in time women only wrote, for the public, for money. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," I could tell that she had much love for her husband. I could tell how much she missed him ... ...

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