psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal

treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside

their appropriate sphere, and those who actually published their work

frequently faced social censure. Compounding this social pressure, many

women faced crushing workloads and struggled with lack of leisure for

writing. Others suffered from an unequal access to education, while others

were dealing with the sense of intellectual inferiority offered to them from

virtually every authoritative voice, that voice usually being male. Bradstreet

was raised in an influential family, receiving an extensive education with

access to private tutors and the Earl of Lincoln's large library. She was part

of an influential family who encouraged her writing and circulated it in

manuscript with pride. That kind of private support did much to offset the

possibility of publi

housewives, and that if their work "proves well," men will say it is stolen or is

works, and sarcastically admitting that she will never be as talented as he is.

women's rights, implying that gender is unimportant and male dominance is

"wars," "captains," and "epics," written specifically by male writers, worrying

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)