Anne Bradstreet
A Biography of a Poet and Puritan

In this short biography, D.B. Kellogg never says that Anne Bradstreet fought off a pack of angry bears with an axe while surrounded by chanting Native Americans in war paint, but she might very well have written a poem about it... The difficult thing about writing a biography about someone like Anne......more

The challenge with writing a biography on Anne Bradstreet is that there isn't a lot of information available. Nevertheless, in telling Anne's story, Kellogg weaves in carefully chosen examples from other known historical sources as well as excerpts from Anne's poetry and writing. Her well-supported......more

I was excited to read a book about a woman from colonial Massachusetts who was a Puritan and poet. Anne's marriage is an arranged one. She was reluctant to leave her home in England for the New World; but, did so as a dutiful wife and daughter. Anne loved to write poetry but knew it was forbidden so......more

After reading the description, I was excited to read this book. However, it did not live up to my expectations. The book is full of facts and factoids about the era in which Mistress Bradstreet lived, but had little information about her as a person or about her poetry. The book has information abou......more