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xiii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm., This [book offers] the gripping story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials and values whose legacy continues to shape our country to the present day.-Dust jacket.
Women and literature History 17th century.
Poets, American Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Puritan women Intellectual life.
Puritans
Schriftsteller.
Gordon, Charlotte.
Preface -- Arrival -- Lilies and thorns -- Sempringham -- A man of exemplary discretion and fidelity -- God is leaving England -- preparedness -- Our appointed time -- The crossing -- New world, new manners -- Upon my son -- Enemies within -- Ipswich -- Such things as belong to women -- Old England and new -- Now sister, pray proceed -- Foolish, broken, blemished muse -- The tenth muse -- Farewell, dear child -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
New York : Little, Brown and Co.
xiii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
This [book offers] the gripping story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials and values whose legacy continues to shape our country to the present day.-Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-328) and index.
Complimentary copy, March 28, 2005.
0316169048
9780316169042
Stacks PS712.G67 2005
Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
Biography.
New England
USA.
1st ed.
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