foremother
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The poem — once called “the most reviled poem in African American literature” — has been hard for many to take, including the generations of Black poets who have claimed Wheatley as a foremother.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Even today, many in the country of 12 million know little about their foremother.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
I also found the reboot too glossy, too chic, and rather boring when compared with its foremother.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020
“She’s a pioneering performance artist and poet, a mystic, a feminist foremother for a whole generation of women artists and writers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
One of their families takes its name from its foremother, the warlock's daughter who was provided with the dogskin mentioned on a previous page.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
