Anne Bradstreet Research Paper

Anne Bradstreet was a female Puritan who wrote poetry most of her life. She was one of the first well known female poets of her time because of the idea that poetry was unladylike and uncommon for women to write. She was able to accomplish writing extraordinary poetry because she ignored the gender bias and valued knowledge and intellect. She paved the way for future poets in both the New World and England. She was born in 1612 in Northampton, England. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke. She did not attend regular school because during the Puritan times girls were made to stay at home while the boys went to school which was one of the many aspects of Puritan beliefs that were gender bias. However, because her father was the steward of the Earl of Lincoln, Anne had ready access to an extensive library where she was able to gain extensive knowledge on a wide variety of subjects such as history, several languages, and literature. Little did she know, the schooling she was receiving would eventually set her …show more content…
She got married to Simon Bradstreet at the age of sixteen in about 1628. Two years later in 1630, Anne immigrated to the New World with the rest of her family. They crossed the ocean aboard the Arbella which was a part of the Winthrop Fleet of Puritan Emigrants. They docked at Salem, Massachusetts on July 22, 1630. Soon, the emigrants were already not fond of the New World. They had problems with starvation and sickness, and they also had to share houses. Shortly after they immigrated, Anne started having children whom she named Dorothy, Sarah, Simon, Hannah, Mercy, Dudley, and John. Their family also moved around to quite a few different places. They moved from Salem, to Charlestown, to Newtown, to Ipswich, and finally to Andover. There they stayed in Andover, which they helped found, for the rest of their lives. While living there, Anne suffered from Tuberculosis and died in