Now say, have women worth? or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is't gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus taxt us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our Sex is void of Reason, Know tis a Slander now, but once was Treason. Anne Bradstreet foreshadowed the "woman's movement" of to-day by two full centuries, and thus showed how even the daughter of one Puritan governor of Massachusetts and the wife of another could be thinking and aspiring far in advance of her times. BOOK LIST =_General References_= OTIS, W. B. American Verse, 1625-1807. 1909. (A full and valuable bibliography appended.) TUCKER, S. M. In chap. ix of Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, Bk. I. TYLER, M. C. A History of American Literature. Colonial Period (1607-1765), Vol. I, chaps. x, xi. 1878. =_Individual Authors_= The Bay Psalm Book. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, etc. 1640. =Available Editions= A Reprint, 1862. Facsimile Reprint for the New England Society in the City of New York, 1903. =Collections= CAIRNS, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 73-81. DUYCKINCK, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 16-18. STEDMAN and HUTCHINSON. Library of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 211-216. MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH. The Day of Doom; or, a Description of the Great and Last Judgment, etc. (1662). Meat out of the Eater: or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end and usefulness of Afflictions unto God's Children, etc. (1670). God's Controversy with New England (1662). Vanity of Vanities (appended to 3d edition of The Day of Doom). =Available Editions= The Day of Doom, 1867. God's Controversy with New England. _Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc._, 1871. =Biography= Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth. J. W. Dean. 1871. See also M. W.,* earliest poet among Harvard graduates. _Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc._, 1895. =Collections= BOYNTON, PERCY H. American Poetry, pp. 18-23, 598-600. CAIRNS, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 163-177. DUYCKINCK, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 57-59. STEDMAN and HUTCHINSON. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 3-19. ANNE BRADSTREET. The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America, or Several Poems, compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight--by a Gentlewoman in those parts. 1650. =Available Editions= The Club of Odd Volumes, 1897. The Works of Anne Bradstreet, in Prose and Verse. J. H. Ellis, editor. 1867. This contains a valuable memoir.