Mistress Bradstreet (46 page)

13. Bradstreet, “David’s Lamentation,” in
Works,
199, lines
17, 19
.
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14. Ibid., 200, line 42.
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15. Woodbridge, “Epistle to the Reader,” in ibid., 3.
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16. “In Praise of the Author, Mistress Anne Bradstreet,” in ibid., 8.
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17. Woodbridge, “To My Dear Sister,” in ibid., 5, lines
19-21, 36-38
.
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18. Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book,” in ibid., 221, lines
11, 8
.
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19. Ibid., lines
1, 12-13
.
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20. Ibid., lines
14-19
.
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21. Ibid., line 9.
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22. Hensley, introduction to
Works,
xxxiii; Probate Records, Northampton, Massachusetts, January
13, 1729/30
; Thomas H. Johnson, “Edward Taylor: A Puritan ‘Sacred Poet,’”
New England Quarterly
10 (June 1937): 321.
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23. Pattie Cowell writes that Bradstreet enjoyed a wide audience in New England. Cowell and Stanford,
Essays,
270-79
.
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24. Quoted in Hensley, introduction to
Works,
xxxiii.
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25. Woodbridge, “Epistle to the Reader,” in ibid., 3.
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26. Ibid. In the 1660s the English writer Aphra Behn would produce plays and earn her living working for the theater, but not until Mary Wollstonecraft in the eighteenth century did another Englishwoman write with the kind of intellectual capacity and encyclopedic breadth that distinguished Anne.
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27. William London’s trade list (1657), quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
271-72
; quoted in Hensley, introduction to
Works,
xxxiii.
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28. John Rogers, quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
363.
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29. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia Christi Americana,
quoted in ibid., 362. Jeannine Hensley writes that the identity of the editor of the second edition of Anne’s work is unclear, but she suggests that John Rogers is the most likely candidate. Hensley, introduction to
Works,
xxix.
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30. Bradstreet, “To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honoured Father,” in ibid., 201, lines
8-10
,
13-15
.
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31. Ibid., lines
17, 25
.
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32. Ibid., lines
28-33
.
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33. Bradstreet, “Childhood,” in ibid., lines
76, 73, 75
; “From Another Sore Fit”; “August
28, 1656
,” in ibid.,
53, 248, 254
.
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34. Bradstreet, “As weary pilgrim now at rest,” in ibid., 295, line 44.
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35. Bradstreet, “Meditations When My Soul Hath Been Refreshed,” in ibid., 250.
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36. Bradstreet, “July 8th, 1656,” in ibid., 252, lines
17, 19
.
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37. Bradstreet, “From Another Sore Fit,” in ibid., 248, lines
1-4
.
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38. Bradstreet, “Childhood,” in ibid.,
52-55
, lines
125, 128, 138
.
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39. Bradstreet, “Autobiography,” in ibid., 240.
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40. Ibid.,
240, 243-44
.
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41. Ibid., 245.
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
Farewell Dear Child

1. Bradstreet, “May
13, 1657
,” in
Works,
256, lines
6-7
.
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2. Ibid., lines
16-17, 23
.
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3. Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts, vol.
2, 62
, quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
312.
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4. Bradstreet, “May
13, 1657
,” in
Works,
256, line 20.
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5. Baym et al.,
Norton Anthology of American Literature,
5th ed., 284.
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6. Ibid., 295.
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7. Ibid., 284.
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8. Bremer explains Simon’s position as a moderate in
Puritan Experiment,
144.
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9. Ibid.,
143, 152
.
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10. The will of Thomas Dudley, quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
296.
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11. Green,
A Short History,
589.
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12. Bremer,
Puritan Experiment,
155.
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13. Ibid.,
155-56
.
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14. Bradstreet, “In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband’s Absence,” in
Works,
265, lines
6-7, 10-11
.
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15. Ibid., 267, lines
13-14
.
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16. Bradstreet, “Autobiography,” in
Works,
243.
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17. Bradstreet, “Contemplations,” in
Works,
211-12
, lines
190, 186, 169, 198, 200, 204
.
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18. Ibid., 213, lines
127, 129, 104, 205-11
.
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19. Ibid., lines
135, 139, 141, 219, 223, 225
.
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20. Ibid., 214, lines
219, 223, 225
.
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21. Scully Bradley, Richard Beatty, E. Hudson Long, and George Perkins, eds.,
The American Tradition in Literature,
4th ed. (New York: Grosset and Dunlop, 1974), 34.
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22. Bradstreet, “The Flesh and the Spirit,” in
Works,
215, lines
10-13, 16-17
.
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23. Ibid., lines
80-85
.
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24. Bradstreet, “Meditation 68,” in ibid., 288.
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25. Bradstreet, “To the Memory of My Dear Daughter-in-Law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet Who Deceased Sept. 6, 1669, in the 28 Year of Her Life,” in ibid.,
238,
line 21; “Upon My Son Samuel,” in ibid., 258, line 3.
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26. Woodbridge, “To My Dear Sister,” in ibid., 5, line 43.
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27. Bradstreet, “For My Dear Son Simon Bradstreet,” in ibid., 271.
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28. Bradstreet, “Meditation 10,” “Meditation 39,” “Meditation 38,” in ibid.,
273-74, 279
.
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29. Bradstreet, “Meditation 38,” “Meditation 39,” in ibid., 279.
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30. Bradstreet, “Meditation 34,” “Meditation 37,” in ibid., 278.
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31. Bradstreet, “Meditation 70,” in ibid., 289.
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32. Bradstreet, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,” in ibid., 235, lines
6-12
.
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33. Bradstreet, “Meditation 14,” “Meditation 50,” in ibid.,
274, 282
.
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34. Bradstreet, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet,” in ibid., 236, lines
20, 16, 14
.
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35. Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of Our House,” in ibid., 292, lines
7, 9, 8, 12-14
.
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36. Ibid., lines
15-16, 17
.
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37. Ibid., lines
26-32, 20-21
.
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38. Bradstreet, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet,” in ibid., 236, lines
14, 16
.
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39. Ibid., lines
8-17
.
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40. Ibid., lines
7, 20-21
.
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41. Bradstreet, “As weary pilgrim,” in ibid., 294, lines
1-12
.
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42. Ibid.,
294-95
.
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43. Bradstreet, “On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet,” in ibid., 237, lines
5-6
.
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44. Ibid., lines
7-12
.
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45. Anne wrote a commemorative poem to Mercy, “To the Memory of My Dear Daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet Who Deceased Sept.
6, 1669
, in the 28 Year of Her Life”; however, either she or the printer put the wrong date in the title by a year. Mercy died in 1670, not 1669.
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46. Simon Bradstreet, quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
358.
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47. Bradstreet, “Autobiography,” in
Works,
240.
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EPILOGUE:
A Voice in the Wilderness

1. Quoted in White,
Anne Bradstreet,
359.
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2. Ibid., 357.
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3. Ibid.
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4. Bailey,
Historical Sketches of Andover,
130.
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5. Berryman’s first book of poems had been derided as imitative of the Irish poet Yeats, and as “derivative.” In writing his next important work, “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” he was looking for a distinctive “American” voice, one that could only be called original. Hence, Bradstreet, the first American poet, became the “muse” for his work.
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6. Hensley, the editor of Bradstreet’s complete works, has suggested that it is Rogers who was the editor of this edition. See Hensley, introduction to
Works,
xxix.
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7. “Phlegm,” in ibid., 48, lines
533-35
.
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