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W&M professor widens lens on 19th century women poets
Putzi, professor of English and gender, sexuality and women’s studies at William & Mary and director of GSWS, was co-editing a volume of the letters of writer Elizabeth Stoddard when she ran across the controversy involving a poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen. After delving further into the topic, she decided to focus her next project on how working-class women and African American women poets accessed print in the early 19th century U.S.