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AuthorGordon, Charlotte.TitleMistress Bradstreet : the untold life of America’s first poet / Charlotte Gordon.Edition1st ed.
PublishedNew York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Descriptionxiii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

LinkTable of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004022702.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-328) and index.
ContentsPreface -- Arrival -- Lilies and thorns -- Sempringham -- A man of exemplary discretion and fidelity -- God is leaving England -- preparedness -- Our appointed time -- The crossing -- New world, new manners -- Upon my son -- Enemies within -- Ipswich -- Such things as belong to women -- Old England and new -- Now sister, pray proceed -- Foolish, broken, blemished muse -- The tenth muse -- Farewell, dear child -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
AbstractThis [book offers] the gripping story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials and values whose legacy continues to shape our country to the present day. -Dust jacket.
ISBN03161690489780316169042Per.Sub.Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
SubjectWomen and literature -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography.
Puritan women -- New England -- Intellectual life.
Puritans -- New England -- Biography.

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