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
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, 1720.
189
Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...
politics
Anne Bradstreet
Lord Lincoln
and other associates of AB
's father
were arrested.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
119
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., Jr McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.
xv
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...
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, 1967.