2. Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in
Northampton, England.
Raised as a Puritan
Married Puritan Simon Bradstreet when
she was 16.
3. Moved to America with her husband in
1630.
Lived near Salem, Massachusetts in what
would become known as the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Anne and her husband had eight
children,four boys👦and four girls👧
(all successful and had large families of
their own)
4. She wrote poetry in her spare time.
She never wrote to get published.
Her early work, which is imitative and
conventional in both form and content.
She is best known for her later poems, which are
more about personal and domestic things such as
her children, husband and grandchildren.
It shows her spiritual growth after accepting the
Puritan doctrine.
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7. John Woodbridge, her brother-in-law, went to
England and had her poems published in
1650,The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in
America.
If it had not been for this, Bradstreet’s poems
may never have been published.
Anne was the first poetess to publish poetry in
England and the United States.
8. Her long poems are reflections and imitations of her
favourite French poet:
Du Bartas (Divine Weeks and Works, 1605)
Her religious poetry Contemplations, which was
regarded as an immortal work by the literary critics of
the 20th century.
Critics have praised Anne Bradstreet's ability to achieve
the delicate balance between praising this world while
also being aware of the next.
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10. Anne Bradstreet died on September 16, 1672
in North Andover, Massachusetts at the age of
60 of tuberculosis.
The exact location of her grave is uncertain,
but many historians believe she was buried in
Old Burying Ground,Academic Road and
Osgood Street in North Andover.
