The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley Charles MacLean first written by Lewis Carroll

first written by Lewis Carroll for Alice Liddell

both are grasping for meaning in a world that feels either too chaotic or too painfully predictable

is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the “mistaken notions of female excellence” that degraded women and kept them in a state of “slavish dependence”

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley Charles MacLean first written by Lewis CarrollIn this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatleys life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley , he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the