Anne Dudley Bradstreet

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,
Who sayes, my hand a needle better fits,
A Poets Pen, all scorne, I should thus wrong;
For such despighte they cast on female wits:
If what I doe prove well, it wo'nt advance,
They'l say its stolen, or else, it was by chance.
- Bradstreet

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Born: March 20, 1612 Northampton, England
Died: September 16, 1672 Andover, Massachusetts
Occupation: a famous writer
Family: She had eight children and a husband named Simon Bradstreet. Her father was Thomas Dudley and her mother was Dorothy York(e). Her brothers and Sisters were Samuel Dudley, Patience Dudley, Sarah Dudley, and Mercy Dudley.

Anne Dudley Bardstreet was the daughter and wife of the governors of Massachusetts. she was born in early American poet, Northampton, England, considered the first great woman author in the American colonies. She came to Massachusetts in the Winthrop group in 1630 with her father, Thomas Dudley, and her husband, Simon Bradstreet, both later governors of the state. 1628 Sempringham, England Children: Sarah Bradstreet Hannah Bradstreet Samuel Bradstreet Mercy Bradstreet Dudley Bradstreet John Bradstreet One of the best poets of the 17th century,

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northamptonshire, England, 1612-13, daughter to Thomas Dudley, a clerk, and Dorothy Yorke. By 1619 Dudley became a steward to the earl of Lincolnshire at Sempringham, and three years later and said that Anne's future husband, Simon Bradstreet, as an assistant, that just graduated from Cambridge University. After being away from each other, when the Dudleys and Bradstreet left the earl's service for different positions, Anne and Simon got married in 1628 and lived in the house of the countess of Warwick until they emigrated--with the Dudleys-on a ship named the Arbella to America. Anne was only 18 years old, but had a good education in the noble households in which she had stayed. After short stays in Salem, Charlestown, and Newtown (now Cambridge), they all settled in Ipswich. Here she had eight children in a happy marriage and wrote many of the poems that were eventually published in The Tenth Muse (London: Stephen Bowtell, 1650) after her brother-in-law took her manuscript back with him to England and had it printed without her knowledge. The Bradstreets moved to Andover, Mass., in the mid-1640s and Anne lived there until her death in 1672. Six years after her death a second edition of her poems appeared.

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