Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England in 1612. She was raised as a Puritan and in 1630, her and her husband Simon Bradstreet, left England to the New World of North America for religious freedom. The Bradstreet’s settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with other Puritans. Although the Puritan faith did not accept woman writing, Anne Bradstreet, a devoted Puritan woman, wrote and published a book called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of those Parts". Bradstreet mainly wrote in the lyric poetry style which is a style based of brief poems that express personal feelings. Bradstreet was among the first American writers to write about the hardships endured in Massachusetts. She was also one of the first feminists of her time.
In Bradstreet’s poem "Upon the Burning of Our House", Bradstreet shows the example of the tragedy of having a fire occurring in a col...