Campbell follows Anne Bradstreet from her girlhood in an English earl’s household through the voyage of 1630 to Massachusetts Bay and the hard early years of the colony. Around her poetry she builds a picture of Puritan New England: the ministers and magistrates, the Antinomian controversy, household life, and the unexpected publication of The Tenth Muse in London.
A rich life-and-times study of colonial America’s first poet and the women of her generation. Download the free EPUB.