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Superfluous Women and Other Lectures, Mary A. Livermore (1883) [50] "The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the North American Review, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1884) [51] "Has Christianity Benefited Woman?", Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from the North American Review (1885) [52] Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures, Helen H. Gardener (1885) [53]
Rosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry; Diane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poet; Zoraida Díaz (1881–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
Paula Marie Francis was born on October 24, 1939 in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. [5] [6] Of mixed Scottish American, Lebanese-American, and Laguna descent, Allen always identified most closely with the Laguna, among whom she spent part of her childhood. [7]
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
This was followed in 2013 by The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013), in which guest editor Robert Pinsky selected 100 poems from the series' history. A collection of Lehman's forewords was published together as a look at contemporary poetry called The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988–2014.
Her later works included poetry collections, Nightstar 1973–1978 (1981), considered one of her best poetry collections, and A Dark and Splendid Mass (1992). [21] [23] In her later work, Evans began to use experimental techniques and incorporate African-American idioms in ways that encouraged readers to identify with and respect the speaker. [5]
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A prodigy as a child, Wheatley was the first black person to publish a book of poems in the American colony, and though her poems are sometimes thought of as expressing "meek submission," she is also what Camille Dungy describes as "a foremother," and a role model for black women poets as "part of the fabric" of American poetry. [21]