Published in 2005
352 pages
Charlotte Gordon‘s most recent book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley won the National Book Critics Circle award for biography. Her other books include: Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet (2005), The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (2009), and two books of poetry: When the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft. A graduate of Harvard and Boston Universities, she has been featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” CBC’s “The Current” as well as many other radio and television programs. She is the distinguished professor of humanities at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.
What is this book about?
Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet.
With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet’s family or their close associates – characters who appear in these pages.
