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Anne was born in Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. [6]Due to her family's position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.
Bradstreet was born to Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley Bradstreet in Cambridge, Massachusetts, moving to Andover as an infant. [3] He served as a colonel in the colonial militia, a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts , and in the Massachusetts Governor's Council from 1698 until 1702.
Bradstreet was buried in the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem. [55] Poetry by his first wife Anne was published in England in 1650, including verses containing expressions of enduring love for her husband. [56] Anne Bradstreet died in 1672; the couple had eight children, of whom seven survived infancy. Their children included Dudley and ...
Elizabeth Wade White at age 18 in 1924 at Westover School. Elizabeth Wade White (June 8, 1906 – December 11, 1994) was an American writer, poet, and activist. [1] She was a lover of Valentine Ackland and wrote The Life of Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse, about the early American poet and first American writer to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.
The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America [1] is a 1650 book of poetry by Anne Bradstreet.It was Bradstreet's only work published in her lifetime. Published purportedly without Bradstreet's knowledge, Bradstreet wrote to her publisher acknowledging that she knew of the publication.
John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing central Puritanical views.While the work acted as an expression of his despair over the failure of the Puritan Revolution against the English Catholic Church, it also indicated his optimism in human potential.
Anne Hutchinson was the first American woman to start a Protestant sect. [1] 1640 Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in the British North American colonies. [2] 1647 Margaret Brent was the first American woman to demand the right to vote. [3] [4] 1649 Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon were charged with "lewd behavior upon a ...
Bradstreet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Bradstreet, early American writer of Puritan prose and poetry; Jeff Bradstreet, American physician and founder of the Good News Doctor Foundation; John Bradstreet, British officer in the French and Indian War