Students of various universities also attended, and two Boston University graduate students praised Rich's "groundbreaking feminist work" and "unusually vivid imagery."
Stacy D. Truta '01, an admirer of Rich's prose work, said she also appreciated the personal angle of Rich's remarks based on her experience as a Radcliffe student.
"[The lecture was] a wonderful continuation of Radcliffe College's great intellectual tradition," said Peggy T. Lim '01.
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The Radcliffe Inaugural Lectures will continue with talks by the first Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Drew Gilpin Faust, Master of Trinity College and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, and author Toni Morrison.