This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been coordinated by the students' teacher, Tonya Howe.
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Episodes
'The Prologue,' by Anne Bradstreet
Episode 1 · 2:41
'The Author to Her Book,' by Anne Bradstreet
Episode 2 · 2:02
'The Poetess's Hasty Resolution,' by Margaret Cavendish
Episode 3 · 1:26
'To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman,' by Aphra Behn
Episode 4 · 1:44
'The Disappointment,' by Aphra Behn
Episode 5 · 6:03
'To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to His Complemental Verses Sent Me Under the Name of Cleanor,' by Anne Killigrew