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...upon a gate with a plaque bearing familiar words: “I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners, at which my heart rose.” I stood there for a moment, smiling, feeling a kinship with the author, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, America’s first English-speaking poet...
...Harvard Yard, I was especially perplexed. It is possible, nowadays, to interpret Bradstreet’s words as a sign of her exhilaration—her heart rising in joy at the discovery of her new country—but in fact, her words signify the exact opposite response. Bradstreet wrote these words a few years prior to her death in an autobiographical letter to her “dear children” that described her resistance to the hostile 1630s New England environment. Indeed, her words make her intentions very clear. “I came into this Country...
...arrived at page eight, containing the gross misinterpretation of Bradstreet, and was appalled but not surprised. After all, it seems to me that Harvard has long been more concerned with getting a (token) female voice at the table (or on the gate) and less concerned about hearing it all the way out. I’m not sure whether Anne Bradstreet’s misconstrued words exemplify sheer ignorance or willful revisionism, but in either case, her words remain. They are there to greet 1,600 new Harvard students, and they are there to remind us that Harvard...
Ulrich says a less conventional monument that the University could use as a model is the Anne Dudley Bradstreet Gate, located along the North border of Harvard Yard near Canaday, which was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the integration of women into Harvard’s houses. But Bradstreet had no affiliation with the University and, in the future, Ulrich says, Harvard might better look to name gates after women affiliated with the institution...
...October 1997 The University celebrates 25 years of co-residency in the Yard and dedicates the Anne Bradstreet Gate to its female students and alumni...