Women in Writing by Trinity Salvatori

"Judith" 150 BCE

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Judith is one of the most powerful and recognizable women written in the Bible. Depicted as strong, cunning, and a holy figure.

"On Monsieur's Departure" 1582

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"I grieve and dare not show my discontent,

I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,"

Written by Queen Elizabeth I in 1582 "On Monsieur's Departure" explores what its like to be a woman in power.

"Judith"

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"For all that Judith said

Glory to the Lord of hosts, who honor to her gave,

Fame in realm of earth, and meed in heaven too,

Reward in the glory of heaven, because true faith she had

Ín the Almighty ever; now at last she doubted not"

"Doleful Lay of Clorinda" 1595

w1661537 — 2023-12-09 01:25:42 UTC

"Ay me, to whom shall I my case complain, That may compassion my impatient grief? Or where shall I unfold my inward pain, That my enriven heart may find relief?"

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney Herbert is a far stretch from a traditional romantic Lay and works to subvert our expectations for that time and genre.

"The Rape of Lock" 1712

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"The Rape of Lock" by Alexander Pope is a satirical poem that is about a man cutting a woman's lock of hair for him to keep and her struggle to find and retrieve it.

“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face!”

"The Hunting of the Hare" 1653

w1661537 — 2023-12-09 01:26:48 UTC

"The Hunting of the Hare" is a poem written by Margaret Cavendish about the unfortunate and brutal experience of a hare being chased and caught by hunters. While it is obviously about animal rights we can also relate the experience to being a woman trying to live in a male dominated world.

"As if that God made Creatures for Mans meat,

To give them Life, and Sense, for Man to eat;

Or else for Sport, or Recreations sake,

Destroy those Lifes that God saw good to make"

"Oroonoko" 1688

w1661537 — 2023-12-09 01:28:28 UTC

"Oroonoko" is a short novel written by Aphra Behn that explores slavery and puts a woman's narrative onto the tragedy of slavery.

"Thus Dy’d this Great Man; worthy of a better Fate, and a more sublime Wit than mine to write his Praise; yet, I hope, the Reputation of my Pen is considerable enough to make his Glorious Name to survive to all Ages; with that of the Brave, the Beautiful, and the Constant Imoinda"

"The Nymphs Reply" 1600

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This poem written by Walter Raleigh has a melancholy feel as the Nymph rejects the Shepherd because she is scared of bad things happening in the world and won't accept his materialistic ideas of happiness.

"Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,

The Coral clasps and amber studs,

All these in me no means can move

To come to thee and be thy love."

Women and Feminism through the Middle Ages

w1661537 — 2023-12-09 03:13:44 UTC

This is a great article by Encyclopedia.com about women's literature through the Middle Ages and how the culture surrounding these women matters as they affect the writing and tone of each piece of literature.

Art and Feminism

w1661537 — 2023-12-09 03:19:09 UTC

This article by Linda Napkinski with thoughtco.com does a great job of briefly exploring the role art as a whole plays into the feminist movement and vise versa.

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