anne bradstreet
... named Simon to come work for him; three years later he became Anne’s husband. They married in 1628 and lived in the household of the Warwick until they emigrated, with the Dudleys, on a ship named the Arbella to America. Anne was only 18 years old but had a good education in the noble households in where she had stayed. She was a firm puritan in religion, a very religious woman; this is probably why she was so inspired to write so much about the Puritan’s lifestyle. After living in Salem, Charlestown, and Newtown (which is now Cambridge), they all settled in Ipswich. She had a wonderful happy marriage and also had eight children there. She wrote several poems about her husband. And, many of them she wrote for him and put in his dedication. Her brother-in-law took her writing back with him to England and had it printed without her permission. This was the very start, the first edition, for her writing to be known. An...