Anne Bradstreet

Anne Dudley Bradstreet (b. c. 1612–d. 1672) emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her extended family in 1630 and remained there until her death. In 1650 a volume of her poems appeared in England under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America and attributed to “a Gentlewoman of those parts.” An expanded edition, Several Poems, was published in Boston, Massachusetts, six years after her death. Because she was the first published “American” poet, Bradstreet’s work has always been in the public eye, although assessments of its quality and ideas about which pieces merit attention have fluctuated over time

Anne Bradstreet’s Bible

Critics have long assumed that Anne Bradstreet, the English poet and gentlewoman who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her extended family in 1630, used the Geneva Bible (1560). Textual evidence from the writing that survives—The Tenth Muse (London, 1650), the posthumous Several Poems (Boston, 1678), and the collection known as the Andover manuscript—demonstrates that, although Bradstreet had access to the Geneva Bible, she preferred the language of the King James version (1611) and likely had a copy with her in Massachusetts

Fictions of the Feminine: Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women

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