AudioBook Review:Stars: Overall: 5 Narration: 5 Story: 5 One element that always struck me when I read Little Women was the lack, or adjunct roles that the men play in the story. Sure, there is Lorrie, and the oft-absent father, but the sense that the men were little more than window dressi...
Very interesting book. I hadn't realized how much of an activist for women's rights the Mays and Alcotts were. Louisa's father comes off as very self-centered and delusional, though his later thought and feelings redeem him somewhat. It's a shame that many of Marmee's and Louisa's journals and...
Early in "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wonders why government refuses to "cherish its wise minority." He asks, "Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"His friend Margaret Fuller might have wryly asked wh...
Simon Bradstreet, age eighty-six, “and Lady,” his younger second wife, Anne, were present at the long dinner table. There were daughters of the late John Cotton and the late Edmund Quincy Sr.—Mary Cotton Mather, whose husband, Increase, was still in London, and Samuel’s widowed mother-in-law. The...
the defendant told the assembled judges in the Cambridge meetinghouse, “I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true.” Having denied teaching any men—and argued convincingly that her questionable statements were privileged because they were made in private—Anne Hutchinson began in public...
but dead.393 “Why,” she cried, “after nine months of toil, a severe and tedious labor, a yearning panting hope of a living son, [are we] pierced with this sharp sorrow?” To her Puritan forebears, a dead baby was considered a message from God that the parents had sinned.394 Abigail pondered the me...