Anne Bradstreet
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Standard Name: Bradstreet, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Dudley
Married Name: Anne Bradstreet
Pseudonym: A Gentlewoman of those Parts
Pseudonym: The Tenth Muse
Used Form: Anne Broadstreet
Used Form: a Gentlewoman in New-England
AB
, born and brought up in seventeenth-century England, is known as the earliest poet of North America. She was a skilled and ambitious practitioner of verse history and scholarly adaptation from classical authors, but is best remembered today for her personal lyrics. Her few prose works include a brief spiritual autobiography (almost a mother's legacy) and various meditations.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Orne Jewett | Her mother, born Caroline Frances Perry
, was a descendant of the earliest poet of North America, Anne Bradstreet
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln | Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln, bore eighteen children, of whom nine daughters and seven sons lived to grow up. She did not suckle them herself; if she had done so, it would probably have been... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln | It was Anne Bradstreet
's father, an employee of the earl, who arranged this marriage. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 421 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline
, Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave, 1735. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | In this film, a comic study of the gulf between French and US culture, one of two female central characters recites a poem by Anne Bradstreet
. Londry, Michael. Email about Ruth Prawer Jhabvala film script to Isobel Grundy. |
Reception | Mary Oxlie | This work listed MO
as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton
, seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his... |
Textual Features | Eavan Boland | The title sequence is dedicated to those who lost a country, Boland, Eavan. A Woman Without a Country. Carcanet Press, 2014. 27 |
Textual Features | 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. Bury, SamuelEditor , Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720. 189 |
Textual Features | Alicia D'Anvers | In the allegorical dialogue, Belgia is the mother and Britannia the wife of the hero Albion (William). While giving voice to nations in their standard female personifications was a fairly frequent trope, it is not... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Grymeston | EG
's prefatory epistle offers advice on the conduct of his life to her son Bernye, and further good counsel is prominent. This book (which also includes poems and prayers) is both the earliest extant... |
Textual Features | Sylvia Kantaris | This volume, through its title, invokes a whole tradition of women's poetry. Sappho
was the first to bear the honorific nickname of tenth muse, which was later freely bestowed on writing women (like Anna Maria van Schurman |
Textual Features | Diana Primrose | DP
's continuing admiration for and loyalty to Elizabeth (like that of Anne Bradstreet
a few years later) seems to reflect proto-feminist attitudes; but it may be angled chiefly at the current political situation: in... |
Textual Production | Adrienne Rich | In this book AR
continues to reconstruct a feminist literary tradition through such essays as Vesuvius at Home: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Tensions of Anne Bradstreet, Woman Observing, Preserving, Conspiring, Surviving... |
Timeline
By early March 2009
Elaine Showalter
published A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet
to Annie Proulx.