1. Literature and Gender in the New Colonies
A hundred years after Bradstreet pushed the boundaries with her captivating poetry and paved the way for future women to take over, Judith Murray broke through with her use of unfiltered literature and she continued the fight for women's equality. During the federal period, women like Judith Murray took greater liberty in letters and intellectual pursuits than women such as Anne Bradstreet took during the middle colonial period. ... Murray takes this radical avocation for female education to another level, almost hinting at the possibility of female superiority, noting that "the judg...
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