Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii.
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Residence | Anne Bradstreet | AB
moved from Northamptonshire to Sempringham in Lincolnshire with her family when her father
became Lord Lincoln
's steward. Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii. xv |
politics | Anne Bradstreet | Lord Lincoln
and other associates of AB
's father
were arrested. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 119 |
Textual Production | Anne Bradstreet | AB
wrote an epitaph on her father
, who died on that day, aged seventy-seven. Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 201-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bradstreet | AB
's father, Thomas Dudley
, wrote poetry himself and encouraged his daughter both to study and to write. In 1619 he became steward to the Earl of Lincoln
(eldest son of the author Elizabeth Countess of Lincoln |
Textual Features | Anne Bradstreet | AB
's published volume, The Tenth Muse, is dominated by her two most ambitious works, long composite poems in pentameter couplets: Quaternions, written before 1642, and An Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 189 |
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