Anne Bradstreet

Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke begot Anne Bradstreet in Northampton, England in the year of 1612. She married at 16 to Simon Bradstreet, an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company. In 1630 her family emigrated to the New World. They made a new life in the colonies. Her father took the role of Deputy Governor and husband was Chief Administrator. Anne was very sickly while in the colonies but she thought of the things she loved, her eight children, her husband, and God, to make it through. When her husband had business in other colonies she felt very lonely and read books and taught her children. In that time period she learned many different subjects, but her favorite was poetry. She wrote poetry in secret and only shared it with family and close friends, in fear she would be banished like her Anne Hutchinson. Her works were published in 1650 without her permisson by her brother-law and called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprang Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts" and did well in England. After contracting Tuberculosis and losing her daughter Dorothy she to lost her life on September 16, 1672 at the age of 60. She wrote the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States.

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