"Anne Bradstreet vs. Anne Sexton" When one thinks about women in literature, the names Anne Bradstreet and Anne Sexton come to mind. They are two very passionate women who wrote about everyday life while making it seem extraordinary. However, they didn't quite express themselves i...

Anne Bradstreet was one of the first poets to write an English verse in the American colonies. Her poems were written for her family she had no incentive to publish them. Anne Bradstreet sailed to settle on Massachusetts Bay at 16 out of a civilized and humane background. Her father, Thomas Dudle...

There are not too many "major" female writers in American Literature, and writing, traditionally, has always been viewed as a masculine activity. It is therefore very interesting, and even ironic, that the first author published in the newly established Puritan society on the American ...

As a female in a highly patriarchal society, Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropriate sphere and those who actually published their work frequent...

"An American Triptych" In her book An American Triptych, Wendy Martin writes about three extraordinary women poets. Martin takes you through the history of the lives of Anne Bradstreet's Puritanism to Emily Dickinson's transdentalism to Adrienne Rich's modern feminism. ...