Picture Book, Non-Fiction
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Picture Book, Non-Fiction
Anne Bradstreet: Pioneer, Poet, and Feminist
On a blustery day in April, 8 year old Anne Dudley sat huddled in the back of her family’s horse-drawn wagon on her way to church. Her older brother Samuel and her father sat up top, guiding the horses and discussing Important Things.
The trip to church was a long one, covering 15 miles of bumpy, dusty roads from their home in Lincolnshire to St. Botolph’s Church in Boston, England.
Anne’s mother, Dorothy, used this time well.
Never one to be idle, she spent the hours in the wagon educating her daughters on topics that would be useful to them.
Not politics, science, or poetry like Anne’s father and brother discussed, but topics more appropriate to a Puritan woman: how to be a dutiful daughter and wife.
Hunched together as though praying, Anne and her 2 younger sisters strained to hear their mother’s words over the rattling of the wagon.
A Puritan woman’s role was to love and obey her husband, supporting him in all he chose to do. Voicing doubts about a man’s decisions was strictly forbidden, and outspoken women were thought to be ruled by the Devil. A woman must marry, have children, keep an orderly household, and of course, put God first.
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