Anne Bradstreet

Andrea Domingos



Anne Bradstreet went through many things in her life and was also one of the greatest

poets of the 17th century and one of the first poets to wirte an English verse in the American

colonies.

Anne Bradstreet was the first American woman to speak about individual feelings in

Puritan society that believed the purpose of writting should be moral instruction.

Anne Bradstreet was the daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke. She was

borned in Northamptonshire, England in 1612. Thomas Dudley her father was the chief steward

of Theophilus Clinton, the Puritan Earl of Lincoln and after he was a governor of Massachusetts

Bay colony. Anne Married Simon Bradstreet at the age of 16 in 1628, and lived in the household

of the countess of the Warwick. Two years later Anne, Simon and her parents sailed with other

Puritans to Massachusettes on a ship named the Arbella to America. Anne was 18 years and had

benefited ...