Brandt, Ellen B. “Anne Bradstreet: The Erotic Component in Puritan Poetry.” Women’s Studies, vol. 7, no. 1/2, Jan. 1980, p. 39. EBSCOhost.
Hall, Louisa. “The Influence of Anne Bradstreet’s Innovative Errors.” Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, Mar. 2013, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
Blackstock, Carrie Galloway. “Anne Bradstreet and Performativity.” Early American Literature, vol. 32, no. 3, Dec. 1997, p. 222. EBSCOhost.
Saxton, Martha. "Bearing The Burden? Puritan Wives." History Today 44.10 (1994): 28. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.
Although the New England Puritans doubted women's capacity for goodness and subordinated them to men, Puritan women acquired moral authority for their patient endurance of suffering, dedicated mothering, and gentle correction of their spouses' behavior (publisher's abstract).
Lutes, Jean Marie. "Negotiating Theology And Gynecology: Anne Bradstreet's Representations Of The Female Body." Signs: Journal Of Women In Culture & Society 22.2 (1997): 309. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.
Examines the personal, spiritual, and physical experiences of a 17th-century woman, as described in the prose and poetry of the prominent New England Puritan Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612?-72). A well-educated, religious mother of eight, Bradstreet offered through her writing an interpretation of female physical reactions to disease, pain, childbirth, and death and distinguished them from the pain caused by sin. Rather than accepting the Puritan doctrine of inherent feminine physical and spiritual weakness, Bradstreet interpreted pain as proof of God's love for her. In her works, especially 'The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America' (1650), Bradstreet refused to acknowledge women as inferior to and victimized by men, but chose instead to portray the genders as medically and theologically equal (publisher's abstract).
Walker, Cheryl. "Bradstreet, Anne c. 1612-1672." American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement 1. Ed. Leonard Unger. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. 98-123. Scribner Writers on GVRL. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.
Martin, Wendy. "Anne Bradstreet." American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734, edited by Emory Elliott, Gale, 1984. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 24. Gale Literature Resource Center.
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Anne Bradstreet, the Tenth Muse by A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. This book is available for checkout in the Gavilan Library.
Margerum, Eileen. "Anne Bradstreets Public Poetry And The Tradition Of Humility." Early American Literature 17.2 (1982): 152. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.
Anne Bradstreet's inclusion of apologies about her failure as a poet in all but one of her formal poems, her deprecation of the published verse in "The Author to her book," and her omission of any reference to her poetry in the letter "To my Dear Children" have been cited by critics as evidence of her attitude toward her life as a poet. They regard these acts as examples of a creative woman's reaction to life in a male-dominated society that allowed her little room for confident self-expression. Further, they see the strained tone and apologetic language of the public poems as evidence of her insecurity in the traditionally male role of public poet. As a contrast to her public attitude, they note the confident voice and absence of apologies in the private poems that she expected only her family to see. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Hall, Louisa. "The Influence Of Anne Bradstreet's Innovative Errors." Early American Literature 48.1 (2013): 1-27. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.
A literary criticism examines the poetry of colonial American writer Anne Bradstreet, with focus given to the ways in which criticism of this poetry that focuses on Bradstreet's feminine subjectivity undermines the stylistic merits of her work. The author argues that focusing on this femininity only emphasizes the sociological importance of Bradstreet's work. Poems examined in the essay include "The Author to Her Book" and an elegy for poet Guillaume du Bartas by Bradstreet and "Homage to Miss Bradstreet" by John Berryman (abstract from publisher).
