An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Woman's Poem [Harper's Monthly for February]

Stoddard, R. H. "A Woman's Poem [Harper's Monthly for February]." New-York Saturday Press, January 22, 1859, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The female speaker of the poem explains the plight of women who are expected to play along with the gender roles of the period despite the unrest and even dispair that many of them feel.

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