These were the Daughters of Liberty, who “For the Sake of Freedom’s Name / (Since British Wisdom scorns repealing) / Come sacrifice to Patriot Fame,” as Philadelphia’s Hannah Griffitts celebrated their resistance in a series of poems written between 1768 and 1775. Hannah Griffitts’ poem...
Clements, Barbara Evans. ‘The Birth of the New Soviet Woman’.Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. In Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites, (eds.)Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985...
Sarah Wentworth Morton, poet of the American Revolution, is remembered for the long, sentimental, narrative poems in which she considers the make-up of the new nation, inter-racial relationships and heroism, both male and female. In her own time she was renowned for her poetry about the virt...
AMERICAN poetryThis paper analyzes and compares two notable anti-slavery poems - Sarah Wentworth Morton's "The African Chief" and Lydia Huntley Sigourney's "To the First Slave Ship" - written in the early American Republic (between the American Revolution and the Civil ...
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was one of the most famous female suffragists in the country. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the American Equal Rights Association and, later, the American Woman Suffrage Association. She also fought on behalf anti-slavery groups. She's already got...
A Rainbow in My pocket, e.g., was a poem and required a more conceptual style. In 2003 she directed and animated How is a good girl?, a 4-minute animation. The UNESCO calendar printed her art work in 2004. She has hold more than ten group exhibitions in Iran, India, Czech ...
regular men and women in society at large – who stand up and assert that fundamental fairness and not a skewed custom of conventions long out-dated should rule the land – will any revolution on the streets of the Arab/Muslim world translate into practical changes in the lives of women ...
matter of historical debate,1 but Bryant herself fostered the popular perception that her love of Russia and her love for Reed were closely intertwined, as in her 1920 poem, Russian Memories: “We have seen life together, / We have seen death, / And the thread of our love / Is unbroken...
That is not the whole story because in the 5th line, this gender is called “Strong, sensible, and fit,” This stands out in the poem as it follows the rule of 3 of a poem to describe the qualities of the “new woman” now. It is controversial to the usual perspective of a woman...
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