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.
Frontispiece of "An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess, and Kindred Topics", ed. Luther Caldwell (Boston, 1898). Bradstreet is seen sitting at a desk, apparently paused in the act of writing for inspiration from above. She wears a black dress with a coif, big-collared shift, cuffs, and apron all in white.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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...

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