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Saturday, October 29, 2011
“Phillis Wheatley, the extraordinary Poetical Genius”
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By early 1773, as merchant John Andrews ’s 24 February letter shows , news had spread in Boston that a London printer was ready to publish ...
Friday, October 28, 2011
The Wheatleys’ Men in London
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On 19 Nov 1772, Robert Calef , captain of the Wheatley family’s ship London , set sail from Massachusetts to England. He carried: a documen...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Richard Cary: “The Negro Girl of Mr. Wheatley’s”
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When Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote about the life of Phillis Wheatley , he interpreted the “attestation” of her talents by eighteen Bo...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
John Andrews: “In regard to Phillis’s poems”
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On 24 Feb 1773, the Boston merchant John Andrews , who had signed up for a book of Phillis Wheatley ’s poetry months before, relayed news of...
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