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12:00 pm

Rebel Girls and Nasty Women: American women writers and literary activism

March 7, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mildred F Sawyer Library at Suffolk Unveristy, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
Free

This talk showcases how women over time have used writing as a form of activism and political engagement. Beginning with 17th century poet Anne Bradstreet and touching upon diarist Abigail Adams, among others in the early 19th century, the talk focuses primarily on women writing during the period between the Civil War and WWI — […]

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