1. Ann Bradstreet
As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... From a different angle, Patricia Caldwell writes that Bradstreet is as much a New World poet as a feminist one, for all first-generation colonists, in her estimation, occupied the position of women in relation to England. ...
- Word Count: 886
- Approx Pages: 4
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate