Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Gender roles
Critical Evaluation:
Anne Dudley was born in 1612, presumably in Northampton, England, of a well-read and intelligent Nonconformist father. In 1628, at the age of sixteen, she married twenty-five-year-old Simon Bradstreet, a graduate of Cambridge University. They sailed to America on the Arabella in 1631. Anne herself was a Puritan of profound religious conviction, but she was intelligent and well educated, and with her natural inclinations strengthened by her surroundings in the New World she became capable of strong-willed behavior, even to the point of rebellion. She...
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