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Rachel Speght's Mortality Memorandum
While not quite as well-known as her first work, Rachel Speght’s second work Mortalities Memorandum with a dreame prefixed continues to utilize biblical themes as well as being Speght’s strike in the war for gender equality. Speght’s second and last known work is a volume of two poems about the Christian view of death and an argument for the education of women. Mortalities Memorandum with a dreame prefixed, was published in 1621 when Rachel was just 24 years old. The works preface is addressed to Speght’s Godmother Mary Moundford where Speght addresses herself as “Your God daughter in dutie obliged.” (Speght) While not much this brief preface gives some insight to Rachel’s relationship with her Godmother. The inspiration for Mortalities Memorandum
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