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Anne Bradstreet was the first notable American poet, and the first woman to become a published author in the American colonies. She was the well-educated daughter of Thomas Dudley, the steward of the Earl of Lincoln. Her father and husband served as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony following their arrival there during the initial settlement in 1630. She suffered poor health most her life, but bore 8 children and wrote a number of poems. The first collection was published by her brother-in-law John Woodbridge when he took a manuscript to London, without her permission, in 1647. More were published posthumously; some not until the mid 19th century. Anne Bradstreet's will, along with a brief discussion and notes, can be found in the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol 4 p. 187. This is available at Google Books. [edit] Wikipedia Extract
Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously. Born to a wealthy Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read scholar especially affected by the works of Du Bartas. She was married at sixteen, and her parents and young family migrated at the time of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. A mother of eight children and the wife and daughter of public officials in New England, Bradstreet wrote poetry in addition to her other duties. Her early works read in the style of Du Bartas, but her later writings develop into her unique style of poetry which centers on her role as a mother, her struggles with the sufferings of life, and her Puritan faith. Her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was widely read in America and England. [edit] Notable Descendants
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