Bradstreet, Anne 
- Time Period
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3/20/1612
 - 9/16/1672
- Description
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Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet who immigrated with her family to Massachusetts Bay with other Puritans in 1630. She wrote poems that revealed her Puritan piety and highlighted the natural beauty of God’s creation, while also rearing eight children and performing domestic duties. Her poetry also gave historical insight into early Puritan New England and its culture. Without her knowledge, Bradstreet’s brother-in-law took her poems to England, where they were published as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). The American version was revised and expanded in 1678. Her writings earned her acclaim as one of America’s first noteworthy poets.
- Interactive Timeline(s)
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Women and Religion
- Browse Related Timeline Entries
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Women and Religion in American History
- Religious Groups
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Timeline Entries for the same religious group Congregationalists (UCC)
Congregationalists (UCC): Other ARDA Links
- Events
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Photographs
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Anne Bradstreet writing- Internet Archive- from The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet portrait- Internet Archive- from An Account of Anne Bradstreet by Luther Caldwell
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Bradstreet poems title page- Internet Archive- from The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse by John Harvard Ellis
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Bradstreet home- Internet Archive- from The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse by John Harvard Ellis
- Book/Journal Source(s)
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Reid, Daniel, Robert Linder, Bruce Shelley, and Harry Stout, 1990. Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, IL.
- Web Source(s)
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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bradstreet
- Web Page Contributor
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Benjamin T. Gurrentz
Affliated with: Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Sociology
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