AB
's mother was born Dorothy Yorke
. Celebrating her as a loving parent and efficient housekeeper, AB
notes that she lived to see all her children have children of their own.
Textual Production
Anne Bradstreet
AB
wrote an epitaph on her mother
, who died that day, aged sixty-one.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.