Bradstreet's Bio

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England in 1612. Her father Thomas was the lead of soldiers who volunteered in the English Reformation and her mother Dorothy was a gentlewoman of noble heritage who was well educated. At sixteen, she married Simon Bradstreet who was twenty-five and an old assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Anne and her family moved to America on the Arabella in 1630. This was a hard and rough journey that brought on malnutrition to the ones on board. Anne's family survived due to her intelligence and later came down with paralysis. This illness did not stop her, for she had eight children:Samuel, Simon, Dudley, John, Hannah, Sarah, Dorothy, and Mercy. Due to Simon's job, she would be lonely. So she spent her time writing poetry and teaching her children. Bradstreet soon came down with tubercolosis and as she contracted this disease, her daughter Dorothy died due to illness as well. Since the battle with her illness was more than she could bear,at the age of 60,Anne Bradstreet was put to rest on September 16, 1672.
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