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American Women Writers
Many writers were phenomenally
successful in their day, subsequently fading from public memory and inadequately represented in library collections. Their works are in the process of being rediscovered and reevaluated.

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Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 18th, 1666 Copied Out of a Loose Paper
Then, coming out, beheld a space The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. 15 Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just. It was His own; it was not mine. Far be it that I should repine, He might of all justly bereft But yet sufficient for us left. 20
Harriet Beecher Stowe
―Eliza made her desperate retrest across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer.‖ (from Uncle Tom„s Cabin) 《汤姆大叔的小屋〉
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Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 18th, 1666 Copied Out of a Loose Paper
In silent night when rest I took, For sorrow near I did not look, I wakened was with thund‘ring noise And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice. That fearful sound of ―Fire!‖ and ―Fire!‖ Let no man know is my desire. I, starting up, the light did spy, And to my God my heart did cry To strengthen me in my distress And not to leave me succorless.
Elizabeth M. Chandler (1807 – 1834)
Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818 – 1877)
Emily B. N. Haven (1827 – 1863)
Caroline Hentz Margaret M. Davidson (1800 – 1856) (1787 – 1844)
The Voice of American Women:
An Overview of American Women Writers
The Voice of American Women
Hannah Adams Anne C. Lynch Botta Julia A. Dyson (1755 – 1831) (1818 – 1852) (1815 – 1891)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our
House July 18th, 1666 is a lament, a ―farewell‖ to what is already lost, her material goods and texts, that ―store I counted best.‖ The poem is also concerned with her persistent attention to the transient qualities of human existence.
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Anne Bradstreet（教科书没有写)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), born Anne Dudley in Northampton, England. Anne Bradstreet is one of the most important figures in the history of American Literature. She is considered by many to be the first American poet, and her first collection of poems, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts”, doesn„t contain any of her best known poems, it was the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States. 第一个在美国出版书的女性 Mrs. Bradstreet's work also serves as a document of the struggles of a Puritan wife against the hardships of New England colonial life, and in some way is a testament to plight of the women of the age. Anne's life was a constant struggle, from her difficult adaptation to the rigors of the new land, to her constant battle with illness. 10
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Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 18th, 1666 Copied Out of a Loose Paper
When by the ruins oft I past My sorrowing eyes aside did cast And here and there the places spy Where oft I sat and long did lie. Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, 25 There lay that store I counted best, My pleasant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I. Under the roof no guest shall sit, Nor at thy Table eat a bit. 30
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Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse, published in 1650;
Meditation May 13, 1657 is a conversion that
Bradstreet implements to symbolize the return to her health correlated with her soul‘s redemption.
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Edith Wharton
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Kate Chopin
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American Women Writers
For 19th-century women, writing for publication was intruding into the hitherto masculine world of letters. Many women writers remained outside or on the margins of the literary marketplace, especially during their lifetimes. Many wrote under pseudonyms笔名 or anonymously. But others became prominent writers in mid-19th-century America. The voices of women in American literary history before 1920 (a date generally marking the beginning of the modern period) reflect visions and styles as diverse as their experiences.