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Title: Motherhood


1
Motherhood
In
The Angry Woman
A poem by Anna Wickham
By Charity Liu
2
Anna Wickham (1884 -1947)
  • Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice
  • Mary Harper.
  • In 1906 she married Patrick Hepburn who was
  • interested in Romanesque architecture and
  • astronomy.
  • The marriage was a turbulent one.
  • Patrick thought women should be homemakers and
  • resented his wifes commitment to her poetry.

Anna Wickham (1/2)
3
Anna Wickham (1884 -1947)
  • She longed for children.
  • She had a miscarriage and a daughter who died
  • within moments of birth.
  • Then, she gave birth to four sons. In 1921 her
    third
  • son died of scarlet fever.
  • In 1947, she hanged herself.

Anna Wickham (2/2)
4
Identity
  • Woman
  • ? Bodily / Physically defined
  • ? I am a woman, with a womans parts
  • ? I am a woman in my speech and gait
  • I have no beard
  • ? Blameless for naturally born woman
  • ? I have no beard (Ill take no blame
    for that)

Identity (1/3)
5
Identity
  • Mother
  • ? Source of motherhood
  • ? marriage
  • ? because of marriage, I have
    motherhood
  • ? based on love rather for men
  • ? And of love I bear children
  • ? Do not ask my weakness as a
    sacrifice to
  • power

Identity (2/3)
6
Identity
? Pregnancybearing children ?
honor ? miracle ?
physically weak and suffered ? In
the days of bearing is my body weak
? bodys pain ? togetherness and
intimacy ? In many things are you
son and I apart But there
are regions where we coincide
Where law for one is law for both
Identity (3/3)
7
Causes of Anger Confinement
  • Sex female or male
  • ? Woman
  • ? totally sexualized, trapped in sex
    woman
  • ? In many things are you woman
    and I
  • apart
  • Where law for one is law for
    both
  • ? There is sexless part of me that
    is my
  • mind

Confinement (1/8)
8
Causes of Anger Confinement
? Marriage ? bond
1. being mastered ? But why
because I do you husband
service, should you call me slave?
? Where law for one is law for both
2. wearing a mask ?
If I must own your manhood synonym
for every strength.
Then must I lie
Confinement (2/8)
9
Causes of Anger Confinement
? manhood 1. Man
with power of manhood controls all.
? In marriage there are many mansions
Shall you rule all the houses of your

choice Because of manhood or
because of strength?
(mansions may be bodies/persons of the
family or every aspect in
marriage )
Confinement (3/8)
10
Causes of Anger Confinement
2. Sex male, not strength
ability, decides who has the
power. ? If sex is a
criterion for power, and
never strength, What do
we gain by union? ? union
1. Nothing is owned ? I
lose all, while nothing worthy is so
gained by you
Confinement (4/8)
11
Causes of Anger Confinement
  • Body
  • ? Womans body as weakness and definition
  • ? Bodys love brings bodys pain
  • ? Bodily relationship taking care of
    children
  • ? Shall I for ever brush my infants
    hair?
  • Cumber his body in conceited
    needle-work?

Confinement (5/8)
12
Causes of Anger Confinement
  • Traditional Framework
  • ? Marriage / Motherhood
  • ? mentally humiliated
  • ? But why because I do you
    service, should
  • you call me slave?
  • ? And how can I serve my son, but
    to be
  • much self
  • ? center or wholeness of her life
  • ? That motherhood is much, and
    yet not all

Confinement (6/8)
13
Causes of Anger Confinement
? abstract / superficial mothering
1. Abstract name ? I
am not mother to abstract Childhood,
but to my son ? A
fantastic creature like a thing of dreams
2. Dutieshousework 3. Leads
to disattachement with her son ?
Or shall I save some pains till he is
grown? ? Why
should dull custom make my son
my enemy
Confinement (7/8)
14
Causes of Anger Confinement
? Privilege of manhood ? leaving
her ? So that the privilege of his
manhood is to leave my house
? Or shall I save some pains till he
is grown? ? Lack of education ?
You husband would hold knowledge from
me because I am a mother ?
Power should be added to power(v.) ?
That mother/hood has so great an eye it has
no head
Confinement (8/8)
15
Claims for Her Motherhood
? Mind gt Body ? Thought ?
sexless, free ? mentally strong ?
Heart, love (spiritual love, good affection)
? woman need it ? Kiss me
sometimes in the light ? Let me have
flowers sometimes ? value for her son
? He will find more joy in laughter
Claims (1/5)
16
Claims for Her Motherhood
  • Trueness gt Disguise
  • ? Be true self
  • ? Let me speak my mind in life and
    love
  • ? she does not want to lie, to do
    things
  • falsely, be a mime and be of
    pretence
  • ? Are you content to be from henceforth
    only
  • father, and in no other way a man?
  • ? Frank love
  • ? And sometimes let me take your hand
    and
  • kiss you honestly

Claims (2/5)
17
Claims for Her Motherhood
  • Spiritual Attachment gt Physical Care
  • ? Spiritual love
  • ? And love, which has no more
    matter in it
  • than is in the mind
  • ? Good affection
  • ? Intelligent enrichment
  • ? If he is my true son,
  • He will find more joy in number and
    in laughter

Claims (3/5)
18
Claims for Her Motherhood
  • Strength / Ability gt Sex female
  • ? Be Wise
  • ? She is as good as men or even better
  • ? You calculate the distance of a
    star
  • I, thanks to this free age can
    count as
  • well
  • And by the very processes you
    use
  • When we think differently of
    two times
  • two,
  • Ill own a universal mastery
    in you!

Claims (4/5)
19
Claims for Her Motherhood
? Necessary for being a mother
? Rather for this reason I am a mother
let me be wise, and very
strong ? Show him the
consolation of mathematics ? Be Strong
? mentally strong ? To have power
? Power should be added to power
Claims (5/5)
20
Conclusions
  • As a woman, wife and mother
  • She redefines her motherhood opposing that of
  • traditional stereotype given by the society.
  • She asks for fairness and equality with men, and
  • shows the confidence of her capability.
  • She asks for being self and to have her voices.
  • She values whats under the surface, such as
    mind,
  • love, self, knowledge and affection.
  • In her motherhood, she not only can give her son
  • the traditional mothering but also what men
    can
  • give.

Conclusions (1/1)
21
Text from
Ingman, Heather, ed. Mothers and Daughters in the
Twentieth Century A Literary
Anthology. New York Columbia
University Press, 2000.
Source (1/1)
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