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Early Colonial American wives and mothers

Early Colonial American wives and mothers

The focus of this program will be Early American wives and mothers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Sarah Kemble Knight, Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Abigaill Franks. In many ways, their lives were not so different from those of women today, but they also had to deal with different limitations and challenges.

Mary Balkun is Professor of English at Seton Hall University and a resident of West Orange, NJ. A scholar of early American literature, she is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture (U of Alabama P, 2006), co-editor of Global and Transformative Digital Humanities: Projects, Case Studies, and Challenges (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of Women of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire (Palgrave, 2016), and the associate editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (2015 and 2005). She publishes widely on early America, educational technology, and curricular change. She is currently at work on two book projects: New World Upside Down: The Early American Grotesque and The Wiley Companion to American Poetry.

To register, email:ref@westorangelibrary.org

Date:
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Registration has closed.

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