English 3444E Lecture 11: Lecture 11
8 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Husband not as well known: moving into the 1850"s, referred to as e. b. b , her mother and father came from wealthy families of jamaican planters. Parents moved back to england and raised their children there: born into considerable wealth and remained wealthy all her life. Lost money on abolition of slavery (ebb was 20 at the time) Still remained well off: a child prodigy, intellectually ambitious. Began writing in 1820s in early teens, in a poetic culture where women poets had a very defined role (central concerns usually were with love, family, domesticity, stereotypically female topics) This was not the role she wanted to fit into: upper middle class masculinity defined in 19th century by only men going to university, so only men knew latin and greek. Knowledge of the classics was also only available to men. Finding her way to female/feminist aesthetics: sonnets from the portuguese: Love for women can be a prison, a loss of identity.
