There are not too many "major" female writers in American Literature, and writing, traditionally, has always been viewed as a masculine activity. It is therefore very interesting, and even ironic, that the first author published in the newly established Puritan society on the American ...

As a female in a highly patriarchal society, Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropriate sphere and those who actually published their work frequent...

"An American Triptych" In her book An American Triptych, Wendy Martin writes about three extraordinary women poets. Martin takes you through the history of the lives of Anne Bradstreet's Puritanism to Emily Dickinson's transdentalism to Adrienne Rich's modern feminism. ...

As a female in a highly patriarchal society, Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropria...