num_pages: 352
description: An illuminating biography of Anne Bradstreet the first writer--and the first bestseller--to emerge from the wilderness of the New World. Puritan Anne Bradstreet arrived in Massachusetts in 1630 18 years old and newly married to Simon Bradstreet the son of a minister. She was accompanied by her imperious father Thomas Dudley and a powerful clutch of Protestant dissenters whose descendants would become the founding fathers of the country. Bradstreets story is a rich one filled with drama and surprises among them a passionate marriage intellectual ferment religious schisms mortal illness and Indian massacres. This is the story of a young woman and poet of great feeling struggling to unearth a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. And it also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America the Puritans and their trials and values; a legacy that continues to shape our country to the present day.
language: English
title: Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
publisher: Little, Brown and Company