Anne Bradstreet
Personal Information
Born: 1612
Died: 1672
Country of Birth: UK
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
Home schooled by father
Professional Life
Field of Study: Writer of Puritan Poetry
Institution/Corporation: None
Degrees & Memberships: None found
Awards & Achievements
Awards: There is a gate at Harvard university, a memorial inside Ipswich Massachusetts public library, & a kindergarten in North Andover MA are the only things honoring her memory
Achievements: wrote poems of everyday life, morality, love, death, religion, nature, & family; was the 1st published author in the American colonies; her 1st book of poetry was published in 1650 in London & additional poems were published in Boston in 1618
was part of the Winthrop Fleet of Puritans who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630
her family was 1 of the 6 families to found Andover MA
only 1 of her books of poetry was published during her lifetime while the others were published posthumously