 Anne
Bradstreet
September 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Anne Bradstreet was the first published
poet of North America. In 1630,
eighteen-year-old Anne sailed with her
husband and other Puritans, including
John Winthrop, to the wild shores and
forests of New England. In 1646, the
Bradstreets became first settlers and
founders of the new town of Andover.
Susan Lenoe enacts the mature Bradstreet
as she looks back on her tumultuous
life, one in which she raised eight
children, wrote hundreds of pages of
poetry, and supported her husband, Simon
Bradstreet, in his public life as
secretary and deputy governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. After Anne
Bradstreet died in 1672, Simon went on
to serve twice as governor of the
colony.
The story of Bradstreet's life portrays
a courageous and gifted woman and throws
light on the history of this very early
period of life in America.
This program is supported in part by a
grant from the Andover Cultural Council,
a local agency which is supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state
agency.
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