Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612(in the colonial period)in England, but later moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America in 1630. Even though women didn't go to school her, father tutored her eight hours a day and because of his status(a steward for the Earl of Lincoln), she was as able to get unlimited access to the library. She first became inspired to write through authors' writings of different books. In 1628, she married Simon Bradstreet, her father's assistant. When they started their hard new life in Salem, they lived in harsh living conditions(sickness and death) with eight children( this inspired most or many of her writings. Her writing was frowned upon simple because she was a women and went against the common ideas of women. She didn't like that women couldn't contribute much to society and were made inferior to men. Her husband and religious experiences were also inspirations of her work. She died in 1672.