Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The image shows typical Puritan gravestone imagery, including a death's head, an hourglass, and text reading "MEMENTO MORI" ("remember you must die") and "FUGIT HORA" (time flies").
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Straightened Up and Dying Right? Queering Puritan Deathbeds

When I was ten, I was present at a close family friend’s deathbed, an experience that sparked my lifelong curiosity […]

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Sketch of two women sitting at a table. One woman leans forward in her chair.
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The Enigmatic Spinster

Judging from the number of books, blogs, news articles and interviews focused on the lives of single women, it seems […]

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Anne Bradstreet’s Elegies for her Grandchildren

Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]

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