One Important Person

Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was the first known colonist to have published poetry. She was also a woman. She was the first woman to be published in “Colonial America”. Anne Bradstreet was born in England but she immigrated to America in 1630 aboard the Arbella as a part of the Winthrop Fleet. Anne’s strong education gave her the ability to be able to write about politics, history, medicine and theology. Anne’s personal life inspired her to write about her affliction and caused her to turn to a more religious stand point in her poems to look for divine help. Many consider Anne Bradstreet to not only have been a very successful poet and a large entertainer but she was also considered to be one of the first colonial feminists. She was a free thinker and incredibly intelligent. Anne’s works became world renown when her brother brought to London without her knowing and got them published. Poetry was a huge intellectual influence on the colonists and Anne Bradstreet’s poetry was particularly intelligent and fluent. Anne died on September 16th 1672 and she is either buried next to her husband in Salem or in North Andover.