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Sarah Kemble Knight

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.

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Sarah Kemble Knight

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  1. Sarah Kemble Knight Taylor Timmons

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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 • http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/connecticutknight.pdf

  6. 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

  7. Work Citied • Sarah Kemble Knight, "The Journal of Madam Knight."The Puritans. Ed. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson. New York: American Book Company, 1938. • "Sarah Kemble Knight". 2005. October 26 2010.http://www.bookrags.com/biography/sarah-kemble-knight-dlb/. • “The Journal of Madam Knight." Legacy 14 (1997) http://college.cengage.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/knights.html • National Humanities Center, Travel Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight, 1704-05; selections on Connecticut.3 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/connecticutknight.pdf

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