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Anne Bradstreet ~ Puritan. Anne Bradstreet was a “daddy’s girl” Being the apple of her father’s eye, he made sure she received an education superior to that of most young women of the time. When she was only 16, she married Simon Bradstreet who had just graduated from Cambridge University.
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Anne Bradstreet ~ Puritan • Anne Bradstreet was a “daddy’s girl” • Being the apple of her father’s eye, he made sure she received an education superior to that of most young women of the time. • When she was only 16, she married Simon Bradstreet who had just graduated from Cambridge University. • A year after their marriage, her husband was appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company. • The Bradstreets and Anne’s family (The Dudley’s) sailed with Winthrop’s fleet on The Arbella.
Anne Bradstreet ~ Puritan • Anne Fun Facts!! • Anne was never very strong physically • She had rheumatic fever as a child and as a result, suffered recurrent periods of severe fatigue throughout her life • Nevertheless, she risked death by childbirth eight times! • Unknown to her, her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, took a manuscript of her poetry to England and had it published. • It was called The Tenth Muse and was the first published volume of poems written by a resident in the New World. It was widely read. • Bradstreet was an ambitious poet whose imagination was firmly grounded in English religious, political, and cultural history. • She was a firm believer in “the Puritan experiment in America”
