Biography of anne bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

Biography by Ann Woodlief

Painting by Ladonna Gulley Warrick 

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 to a nonconformist former soldier of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Dudley, who managed the affairs of the Earl of Lincoln.

In 1630 he sailed with his family for America with the Massachusetts Bay Company.

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Also sailing was his associate and son-in-law, Simon Bradstreet. At 25, he had married Anne Dudley, 16, his childhood sweetheart. Anne had been well tutored in literature and history in Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, as well as English. 

The voyage on the "Arbella" with John Winthrop took three months and was quite difficult, with several people dying from the experience.

Life was rough and cold, quite a change from the beautiful estate with its well-stocked library where Anne spent many hours. As Anne tells her children in her memoirs, "I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose [up in protest.]"a.

However, she did decide to join the churc