Anne Bradstreet (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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In 1630, Anne Bradstreet, about eighteen years old, sailed to America aboard the Arbella, the flagship of the great Puritan migration to the New World. Bradstreet’s father, Thomas Dudley, and her husband, Simon Bradstreet, had decided to trade a comfortable life in England for a difficult one in the New England colonies—and religious freedom. As a dutiful Puritan daughter and wife, Bradstreet submitted to their wishes, although she later confessed that her “heart rose” in despair after seeing the desolate Salem settlement in the Massachusetts Bay...
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