Mark, my old cabbage:
<<
History airbrushed? Quick--name three other New England poets of the 17th
Century. Either gender will do.
>>
Jonathan Edwards.
OK, top of my head, only one (and a sermon writer rather than a poet at
that) ...
<Later: Don't I +ever+ hate these kiss-or-kill name-your-sources NOW exams?
blup ....
Sorry ... didn't say that ... >
But ...
I think the Point Still Holds.
Or mibee not.
[But, Mark, have you +ever+ tried to get hold of a DECENT edition of Ann
Bradstreet? Properly edited?
When I was teaching Ann Bradstreet, to +begin+ to teach her, I had to
Construct Handouts. And to do THAT, you crashed against the Brown Corpus
people sitting tight on the edited texts.
Probably rational, as they didn't want Male Academics ripping them off ...
But it sure as hell didn't make life easy, if you wanted to make the simple
point to the kids that Ann Bradstreet was one of the finest poets of the
17thC ...
And there is (2003) STILL, as far as I know, no decently edited text of Ann
Bradstreet.
Says something.
:-( ]
<<
Of course women, especially upper class women, suffered under various legal
and extra legal constraints, mais faut pas exageré, mon vieux.
>>
Sure, the killer constraints were more extra-legal than legal -- Katherine
Philips got away with it because her husband was acquiescent, Ann Bradstreet
fronted the First Edition via her brother-in-law (believe that if you like).
Of +course+ I exaggerate -- you know any sixties Glasgow Situationist who
+doesn't+ fucking exaggerate?
{Hehehe -- Glasgow Situationism has returned to life via Christopher
Brookmyre's _The Sacred Art of Stealing_ --but that's another story.
[evil <g>]
R2. }
<RUFF>
Robin
At 12:33 AM 1/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Alison:
>
> > Or the fact that aristocratic women of the 17C considered it
> > worse than whoredom to have writing published.
>
>Not so -- Katherine Philips and Ann Bradstreet, for two specific examples
of
>17C aristocratic women who published. Margaret Cavendish?
>
>The constraints were more subtle, and the problem was often -- with Ann
>Bradstreet, for all of me, the finest metaphysical poet after Donne and
>Marvell -- posthumous, the airbrushing out of history.
>
>For a time. Not now.
>
>Robin
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