Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was born into a life of privilege and luxery in the early fifteenth century, her father being steward to the Earl of Lincoln. Despite the attitudes of the age being against the education of a young woman, she was educated in literature, history, Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, as well as English. She married young, moving to the New World with her husband and parents at the age of sixteen. The three month trip aboard the "Arbella" was a stark contrast to the life she was use to, with cold winds and dying passengers becoming a part of daily life. Despite this, Anne makes it to Massachusetts and starts over there. She has eight children there, and although she was sickly for most of her adult life, becomes a great writer. She writes about her lifestyle in the New World and its religious aspects, although most of her works were originally written for her family. She died in 1672, at the ripe age of 60.

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