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In keeping with the mission of Seaver College, this course seeks to “provide a link between the knowledge and wisdom of the past and present with the challenges of the future” by examining women writers and their lives in the American colonial period. In order to prepare the students of Pepperdine University for lives of “purpose, service, and leadership,” this course emphasizes the varying perspectives and experiences of the women so students can learn to understand and value different viewpoints.

The Coquette

In 1797, Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840), wife of a Brighton Reverend, published the first novel written by an American-born woman, The Coquette, or the history of Eliza Wharton, which was based on the life of the poet Eliza Whitman (1752- 1788).

"Peabody: The Coquette" Literary Map. Massachusetts Center for the Book, 12 Nov. 2007. Web. 1 May 2014.

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Journeys in New Worlds by William L. Andrews (Editor); Sargent Bush (Editor); Annette Kolodny (Editor); Amy Schrager Lang (Editor); Daniel B. Shea (Editor)
Call Number: E187.5 .J68 1990
ISBN: 9780299125844
Publication Date: 1990-12-15
Presents the personal narratives of four women in the early days of American settlement. These are tales of exploration beyond conventional boundaries, women's voyages of self-discovery in a new world. The authors include Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Knight, Elizabeth Trist and Elizabeth Ashbridge. Literary criticism is found in the introductions.
American Women Writers to 1800 by Sharon M. Harris (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.W7 A49 1996
ISBN: 9780195084535
Publication Date: 1996-01-04
Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. Brief biographical introductions to each author, explanatory footnotes, and a comprehensive index and bibliography impress modern scholarship upon this valuable literary collection and offer fertile ground for a radical rethinking of early American women's lives and writings, while challenging our assumptions regarding early America itself.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800

Commonly referred to as the Evans Collection, this resource is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more. The imprints in Series I are expertly indexed and may be browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language.

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Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions by Joanna Brooks (Editor); Lisa L. Moore (Editor); Caroline Wigginton (Editor)
Call Number: Available online in EBL
ISBN: 9780199743490
Publication Date: 2012-04-19
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. English, Scots and Irish women; colonists and indigenous women; Loyalists and Patriots; religious leaders and scandal-dogged actresses; slaves and free women of color - this anthology puts all these eighteenth-century voices in conversation with one another in an unprecedented archive of primary sources that will become indispensable to students and scholars of the eighteenth century in English, history, and women's and gender studies.
Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America by William J. Scheick
ISBN: 9780813158594
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
Should women concern themselves with reading other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the same authorities and traditions as did colonial men, but they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing. This study features the poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstreet, the letter-journals of Esther Edwards Burr and Sarah Prince, the autobiographical prose of Elizabeth Hanson and Elizabeth Ashbridge, and the political verse of Phyllis Wheatley.
The Puritans in America by Alan Heimert (Editor); Alan HEIMERT (Editor); Andrew Delbanco
ISBN: 9780674038493
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place--where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Heimert and Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without.

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