Her writing reflects the constant struggles that she had to endure as a Puritan woman in the seventeenth century, as well as her love and devotion to her husband and children. ... A fellow poet and Puritan from the seventeenth century is Edward Taylor, who is an important and major literary figure because he is our first successful Metaphysical poet. ... Very little is known about Taylor, mainly because none of his work was discovered until two centuries after he left it at Yale College's library. ... Like Taylor, very little is known about the eighteenth century poet, Ebenezer Cook, ...

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(Woloch, 30) John Demos a New England witchcraft historian writes "a hidden theme of the lives of seventeenth-century women seems to reveal an intense hostility of younger women toward the power and control of older women. ... Why were women (and especially women over the age of 40) signaled out and punished disproportionately in seventeenth-century New England? ...

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THEME The Scarlet Letter centers round the consequences of sin, especially shame and guilt. It is to be noted that the sin of adultery is, in itself, not the subject matter of the novel. In fact, the novel opens after the sin has been committed and Pearl, the offspring of the sinful, but natural, ...

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Volume1: TO 1877 Nation of Nations Morgan, Edmund The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England , Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Underwood, Devon Women's Roles in the American Colonial Period http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part1.htm ...

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PURITANISM AND THE FOUNDING OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY Puritans were a group of religious people who founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1628, with dreams of creating "a city upon a hill" for Godly people like themselves. They had to deal with many obstacles in establishing the colony, such...

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