Susanna Wright: Poet and Polymath on the Susquehanna
Posted by Jack Brubaker on Apr 17, 2026 in | Comments Off on Susanna Wright: Poet and Polymath on the Susquehanna No right has man his equal to control, Since, all agree, there is no sex in soul; Weak woman, thus in agreement grown strong, Shakes off the yoke her parents wore too long. Those lines of poetry, written in a rigidly paternalistic 18th-century America, establish Susanna Wright (1697–1784) as one of America’s early supporters of women’s equality. More subtly, the poem, entitled “To Eliza...read more