Anne Bradstreet's Exemplary Puritan Woman

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Upon reading the poems by Anne Bradstreet, one is less likely to deny that Anne was an exemplary Puritan woman. Raising eight children, taking proper care of her family, and being able to write such a wonderful poems at that time is something, I think, we all can appreciate. It is almost unimaginable for a woman of our time to accomplish what Anne did. However, the fact that Woodbridge, Bradstreet’s brother in law, had to write a preface to assure people about the book’s authenticity and also to assure that those poems were not written in neglect of family duties, made me think how indifferently patriarchal Puritan society, then, treated women (Cowell 419). While reading Anne’s brief biography, one thing I really liked was Woodbridge’s eloquence

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