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Alex and Matt talk Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" and "A Dialogue Between Old England and New," originally published in 1650 in The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, a collection often said to have been published without Anne's full awareness and which saw her become the first poet, male or female, from the "New World." We also discuss the context of patriarchal repression illustrated by the Anne Hutchinson trials and the place of women in colonial New England.
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References:
'Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet' by Charlotte Gordon (2005)
'The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic' by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker (2000) Full book here:
(https://libcom.org/library/many-headed-hydra-peter-linebaugh-marcus-rediker/)
Elizabeth Klett's recording of "The Tenth Muse" at Archive.org