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Whitney was a very unusual and progressive woman, especially for the sixteenth century. She was unconventional in many ways. While almost all women writers of the time were well connected and noble, Whitney was not, and because of this, she often criticized the financial situations of her time in her writing, as well as criticizing gender roles.
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It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman; Gower's Confessio Amantis; and the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English ...
Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934), American poet and professor of English literature; Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), Canadian poet; Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918), American poet, writer; Miriam Del Banco (1858–1931), American poet; Belle R. Harrison (1856–1940), American poet and short story writer
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
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