She wrote One of the first women writers of the eighteenth century was Jane Coleman Turell. .
Turell was a Massachusetts born poet who wrote about issues such as rural life, local affairs, childbirth, and death (Lauter 669). One of her most famous poems is entitled "Lines on Childbirth". This poem showed the experience of childbirth through the eyes of a woman unlike the numerous poems written by men on an outside looking in prospective. The poem uses a type of bittersweet way of describing her experiences of carrying and birthing her child. She uses references to the Phoebus, the God of sunlight. This showed that it was time that brought a new light of her life (669). Because only women share childbirth, this poem was a way of reaching many different kinds of women because they all could share this experience. There is no experience greater to a woman than childbirth. The author states that even though it is painful, all those pains go away after you hold you bundle of joy. Women are the nurtures of society. They are the first teachers in the world. This gift that was given by God should be cherished, and men should learn to respect women because it takes a lot to be a mother. .
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Bridgette Richardson Fletcher.
Bridgette Richardson Fletcher was another eighteenth-century woman writer. She based her poetry solely on religious topics, women, marriage, and proper conduct. Her hymn number XXXVI, entitled "The Greatest Dignity of a Woman, Christ Being Born of a Woman, was a feminine empowerment plea. This hymn written in 1773, discussed the greatest gift of a woman, which is childbirth. Many people believe that the most magnificent of these is the birth of Jesus Christ. Fletcher stresses that if the Lord Jesus was born of a woman, therefore we must hold women in the highest esteem (Wilson 99). She should always be respected and treated equality in society. If she can birth a King then she should have treatment like a queen.
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