Puerto la Cruz, October 23th of 2022

IUTSO-ICAE
3SA
Student: José Alfredo Mendoza Herrera; C.I: 30.433.107
Professor: Orlando Rodríguez

 Create a bio that features

1. The life of Anne Bradstreet

2. What was her contribution to the Puritanist movement?
3. One of her poems, who is it adressed to and what is the message?

The Life of Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet Dudley was a writer and a poet. One of the most important figures of
the North American literature, and the first woman whom which Works were publicated
both in England and in America
She was born in Northampton, England, 1612. She was daugther of Thomas Dudley,
a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy York. Due to her father’s work, she grew
up in a cultured environment, having acces to hundreds of books from the well-stocked
library of the estate of the Earl, and being tutored in history, several languages and
literature. There a young Anne read Virgil, Plutarch, Livy, Pliny, Suetonius, Homer,
Hesiod, Ovid, Seneca, and so on. In about 1628, at the age of 16, Anne Dudley married
Simon Bradstreet; a marriage that would last until her death. In 1630, Anne immigrated
to America aboard the Arbella, as part of the Whinthrop Fleet of Puritan emmigants,
with her husband and her family. In 1633 the first of her children, Samuel, was born,
and her seven other children were born between 1635 and 1652: Dorothy (1635), Sarah
(1638), Simon (1640), Hannah (1642), Mercy (1645), Dudley (1648), and John (1652)
After three months crossing, their ship docked at Salem, Massachusetts, on July,
1630, althought their stay was not to last long: distressed by the sickness, scarcity of
food, and primitive living conditions, the family had to move to Charlestown, then to
Cambridge, place where Anne would fall pray to smallpox. In the early 1640s, they
move from Ipswich, in North Andover. They never lived in what is now known as
“Andover” to the south
In 1650, Anne’s first collection of poems, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in
America, was published in London by her brother-in-law Rev. John Woodbridge,
making Anne the firts woman in be published in both England and the New World.
 On July 10, 1666, their house in North Avender was consumed by a fire, leaving the
Bradstreets homeless and with a few belongings. After that, Anne’s health started to
dimiss: she contracted Tuberculosis.
Despite her health state, her would remain strong, founding peace in her firm belief
in God.
She die don September 16, 1672, in North Avender, Massachusetts, at the age of 60
Througout her life, Anne was concerned with the issues of sin and redemption,
physical and emotional frailty, death and immortality. As a Puritan, she struggled to
subdue her attachment to the world. However, she didn’t aprove the idea that the
women were inferior to men during 1600s: she opened the eyes of individuals, proving
that women do not need a man to think or act fot them.
In her poem, “In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy
Memory”, she praises the Queen as a paragon of female prowess: Bradstreet refers to
the Queen’s outstanding leadership and historical prominence:

Who was so Good, so just, so learned so wise,

From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.
Nor say I more then duly is her due,
Millions Will testifie that this is true.
She has wi`’d off th’ aspersion of her Sex,
That women wisdome lack top lay the Rex