HIST 2Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Simon Bradstreet

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Hist 2q93 lecture: religion, morality, and republican motherhood. Outline: early female religious figures: anne bradstreet and anne hutchinson, quaker women, the first great awakening, 1730s-1743, profile: diary of hannah heaton, morality and divorce. Religion provided an outlet for female talent. Gave traits to women which they could use for influence. Anne bradstreet born 1612 died in 1672 first poet and the first female writer in the british north american continent to have a literary piece published born in england, grew up in cultured circumstances. Well educated for the period, unlike most women; studied history, languages, literature at 16 she married simon bradstreet and they emigrated to the american colonies in. Women were considered the intellectual inferiors to men her poems were greatly criticized for being stolen from ideas of men because of its content and because she was a woman.

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