Women in Art And Poetry Were The Same
While looking at another piece of Christina Rossetti's writing, "In an Artist's Studio", it is interesting to see a woman's side of the...
The Never Ending Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti wrote a poem called the Goblin Market that featured two sisters trying to fight off the different goblin's in their...
The Beginning of African American Literature
Phillis Wheatley was an essential woman writer to the genre of African American literature. She was forced into slavery at the age of...
You Learn Something New Everyday
Mary Wollstonecraft was not only a writer, but she was a writer that held characteristics of a very early journalist. During her stay in...
Anne Finch; Professional Feminist
On Myself by Anne Finch is a one of a kind poem because it was the first we have read where the author specifically states that she is...
Men; Can't Live With Them and Can't Live Without Them
The statement in this blog title sums up my feelings about Lady Mary Chudleigh. She wrote two poems, "The Wish" and "To The Ladies", that...
Thank God Alexander the Pope Isn't His Title...
I'm just going to start off by saying that Alexander Pope is quite the opposite of his name. His attitudes and writings about women are...
A Lady and the World
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has been one of my favorite authors to read so far. She's an incredibly talented and educated woman that took...
Fantomina the Phantom
Fantomina, by Eliza Haywood, is a weirder story than most we have read in class. There is something odd about the main character in a way...
Does she deserve a Red "A"?
One of the most common themes I have found within older works of literature is the theme of adultery; the Scarlet Letter being the most...
