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Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Whatley, and Emily Dickinson are some of the most representative female American writers that have had a significant contribution to American literature as we know it today. Despite their undisputed role in American literature, the three writers are bound by similarities as well as divided by differences in terms of style of writing, themes discussed, and means through which they dealt with their emotions and beliefs.

In terms of similarities, all three writers were well-educatedwomen, which for their time represented a great achievement. In this sense, Anne Bradstreet was educated in the spirit of the first feminist poetry and determined a wave of writing that reflected the first attempts of women writings. More precisely, "Bradstreet's refined verse conforms to and perfects many of the standard poetic conventions used by men and is a subtle assertion of women's capabilities in the literary sphere" (Schlotterbeck, 2002) Therefore, she was one of the first women to write and the first to be published in 1650. Similarly, the next century, Phillis Whatley was the first African-American woman to ever publish a book at the end of the 18th century (Gates, ?). The significance of this second poetess was that she wrote in an era where most African-American women were enslaved and rarely set free to pursue an independent life from their master. Therefore, her contribution as the first African-American woman to actually achieve notoriety in such an era was most significant. Even more, "As a black woman writer, Phillis Wheatley was a phenomenon in her day; people from all walks of life used her work for their own ends." (Schlotterbeck, 2002) Finally, Emily Dickinson is to this day considered to be one of the most influential writers of her era and among the first to bring themes such as death and sadness into women's poetry. Despite the fact of novelty most of her work was published after her death largely due to the fact that she was a secluded person and mostly kept to herself.

The themes proposed by the three writers are similar in certain aspects in the sense that both Bradstreet and Dickinson use death as an important theme in their writings, which in fact represented part of the novelty of their creation. More precisely, Bradstreet poses the issue of death from a personal perspective especially given the fact that she did not target any audience when writing. Most of her work is inspired by the realities of the day, which included even the role of women in the society, which at that time was considered to be inferior to that of the woman.

Dickinson dealt with death as a recurring theme from a different perspective, much more personal in the sense of being inspired from events taking place around her, but relating them to more philosophical aspects such as immortality and seclusion. Her writings are greatly influenced by such approaches and the tone of her work is therefore much more melancholic.