Anne Bradstreet
![Nineteenth century depiction of Anne Bradstreet by [[Edmund H. Garrett]]. No portrait made during her lifetime exists.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pender|first=Patricia|date=2015|title=Constructing a Canonical Colonial Poet: Abram E. Cutter's Bradstreetiana and the 1867 Works|journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America|volume=109|issue=2|pages=223–246|doi=10.1086/681959|issn=0006-128X|jstor=10.1086/681959|s2cid=190658208}}</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Frontispiece_for_An_Account_of_Anne_Bradstreet_The_Puritan_Poetess%2C_and_Kindred_Topics%2C_edited_by_Colonel_Luther_Caldwell_%28Boston%2C_1898%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Born to a wealthy Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read scholar especially affected by the works of Du Bartas. She was married at sixteen, and her parents and young family migrated at the time of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. A mother of eight children and the wife and daughter of public officials in New England, Bradstreet wrote poetry in addition to her other duties. Her early works read in the style of Du Bartas, but her later writings develop into her unique style of poetry which centers on her role as a mother, her struggles with the sufferings of life, and her Puritan faith. Her first collection, ''The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America'', was widely read in America and England. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2013]
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