Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Bradstreet was a 17th-century Puritan poet and one of the first published female writers in the English colonies of North America.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Puritan
colonial American writer
person
poet
poetry collection
woman writer
author Anne Bradstreet
centuryOfActivity 17th century
colony Massachusetts Bay Colony
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
countryOfOrigin Massachusetts Bay Colony
dateOfBirth 1612
dateOfDeath 1672
ethnicGroup English
familyName Bradstreet
father Thomas Dudley
genre devotional literature
poetry
religious poetry
givenName Anne
hasRelative Governor Simon Bradstreet
Governor Thomas Dudley
influenced later American women poets
influencedBy Puritan theology
languageOfWorkOrName English
literaryTheme Providence NERFINISHED
domestic life
marriage and love
mortality
religious faith
movement Puritan literature
colonial American literature
notableFor being one of the first published female poets in the English colonies of North America
being the first poet of the American colonies to be published in a volume
notableWork The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Upon the Burning of Our House
occupation poet
writer
placeOfBirth Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
placeOfDeath North Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony
publication The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
regionOfActivity New England
religiousAffiliation Puritanism
residence Massachusetts Bay Colony
sexOrGender female
spouse Simon Bradstreet


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