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Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet. On first voyage to Massachusetts Bay She, husband, and father all travelled with Winthrop

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Anne Bradstreet

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  1. Anne Bradstreet

  2. On first voyage to Massachusetts Bay • She, husband, and father all travelled with Winthrop • Upon arriving in New World, she “found a new world and new manners” and was not initially enthused; however, “after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined the church…”

  3. Wrote poetry for her own sake, not to have it published • For first collection, The Tenth Muse, was published after her brother-in-law took a collection of her poetry with him to London and had in printed (without her knowledge) • This was the first published collection of poems by anyone in the New World and was very popular in England

  4. Often struggled with accepting “the truth of the scriptures” • However, her comfort grew as she “[saw] the vast frame of the heaven and the earth, the order of all things, night and day, summer and winter, spring and autumn, the daily providing for this great household upon the earth, the preserving and directing of all to its proper end.”

  5. Found “proof of God” not in scriptures but in “wondrous works” in the world around her. • Important for both her long, meditative poems as well as her descriptions of daily life in the New World

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