The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library)

5 best books like The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library) (Anne Bradstreet): The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, If My Body Could Speak, Poems of Phillis Wheatley, Letters from an American Farmer, The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

Author	Olaudah Equiano
ISBN	0312442033

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...

If My Body Could Speak

Author	Blythe Baird
ISBN	1943735476

If My Body Could Speak is about fighting for the space one takes up in a world that would rather they take up none at all. Blythe Baird deftly and uniquely charts a course through various modes of womanhood and women's bodies. Through love, loss, and the struggles of disordered eating, If My Body Could Speak...

Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Author	Phillis Wheatley
ISBN	1557092338

“Some view our sable race with scornful eye, ‘Their colour is a diabolic dye.’ Remember, Christians... Negros, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.”

This was a for-school-read that I really ended up enjoying. First published in 1770, Phillis Wheatley was...

Letters from an American Farmer

Author	J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
ISBN	0192838989

Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity...

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

Author	Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN	0217062113

The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's fledgling society to regard...