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Women in colonial America lived much different lives than those of today’s women. Although gender-specific roles existed and were enforced by society’s watchful eye, many women stepped beyond these rigid guidelines and became writers. Sarah Kemble Knight an ....

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.... one should not become attached to them. On the contrary, Knight’s writing reflects the flair and care-free attitude of the independent woman that she was. Her narrative format allows her to comment and pass judgment on any of various things she encountered. She was a keen social observer and she was not hesitant to write with humor of those people by whom she was entertained. Her accounts are mostly non-fictional with a bit of reflective observation; she spares no details to good taste. Knight and Bradstreet emerged from very different backgrounds. Bradstreet was raised in the house of a British nobleman. At sixteen, she married a scholar who ....