I was intrigued by the contrast between Wheatley and Bradstreets' writing and how they did or did not make it known that they were women. If one was reading something from Bradstreet, they would know immediately that she was a woman and would probably go into the reading with their own judgements just based on her gender. I like how when reading Wheatley, had the reader not known about her, they would not know her gender until the very end of "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" and they would not have those judgments before even reading the piece. I feel that it was very clever of her to do so.
She also was a big advocate of education and learning, and how students need to take the opportunities that come to them and to learn for an eternal purpose.
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