She was Italian & of Jewish descent. Fairly sure she wasn't black. I like her coz she's v sarcastic abt Christian gender roles.
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She did publish her work. And it was sold at St Paul's. She didn't die in poverty. She didn't like men much & scared a few of them.
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On the remote chance anyone is interested in an argument she based her empowered model of Christian feminine wisdom on St Monica of Hippo...
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When Shakespeare's contemporaries described ppl as 'black', they were usually talking abt their hair.This cld be herpic.twitter.com/X0NrQBbO4n
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If she was secretly a believing Jew, her poem takes on an interesting twist coz its argument is to stop blaming women for Eve eating an...
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...apple when it was men who killed the son of God. Of course, it was Jews who were blamed for that & persecuted.
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Even tho it was also regarded as heresy to think that anything cld have saved Christ when he'd intended to die.
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But there's no reason to think she wasn't genuinely Christian. If anything, her poems cld have got her in trouble for being a bit Catholic.
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She doesn't look like Francis Bacon.
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You are all wrong - it was Martha all the time!!! D'oh!!!pic.twitter.com/PuNbcUXYfh
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