Sarah Kemble Knight Taylor Timmons

Biography Daughter of a Boston merchant whose family settled in Charlestown in the 1930s Born in Boston on April 19, 1666 Married Richard Knight and had one child named Elizabeth Knight was a teacher and businesswoman

Woman’s Roles Stressed women’s dependence, domesticity, and inferiority Women’s purpose in life is to serve God and her husband Stress the ideal woman’s qualities of modesty, piety, humility, patience, and charity But women sometimes took on men’s work Becoming printers, stationers, writers, and innkeepers

Journal of Madame Knight Begins with her leaving on October 1704 and returned March 1705 Traveled on horseback as woman from Boston to New York Describes the landscape, difficulties of traveling, and culture of early colonial America People- blacks, Indians, and colonists from different colonies Landscapes Farmhouses and Inns Displays several of the types of humor and characters

Contained little moral values and almost no spiritual self- examination Refers to Native Americans as savages and compares them to animals Moxie- force of character, determination, or nerve necticutknight.pdf

How Was She Different? She was a woman writing during this time She used humor and described early America Although her writing was vivid she did not once write with religion in her voice She catches and describes things that a mans might not be able to

Work Citied Sarah Kemble Knight, "The Journal of Madam Knight."The Puritans. Ed. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson. New York: American Book Company, "Sarah Kemble Knight" October “The Journal of Madam Knight." Legacy 14 (1997) ghts.html ghts.html National Humanities Center, Travel Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight, ; selections on Connecticut.3 h/text1/connecticutknight.pdf h/text1/connecticutknight.pdf