ENGL 1289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Astell
23 Apr 2016
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Together because they are both engaging (bradstreet more humble) in the tradition of humility. Mary astell (from a serious proposal to the ladies) Lady mary wortley montagu (epistle from mrs. yonge to her husband, the reasons that induced dr. ) Women want to write: they address this in different ways. Women confront a contradiction: they all suggest that one one had society says that women are weak . Yet we"re going to hold it against you when that weakness makes you too emotional; don"t let that weakness drive that passion. Contraction women must confront it: society says that femininity is weak. The women say but yet the 9 muses, we"re all called muses because of their emotional sense of self: society says that femininity is weak. The greeks demonstrated that the women are fabulous writers. Women are aware of their audience: all 5 poets need to think about their audience, anne bradstreet wrote for herself ad for her family members.
