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Anne Bradstreet

1612 - 1672

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Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously. Born to a wealthy Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read scholar especially affected by the works of Du Bartas. She was married at sixteen, and her parents and young family migrated at the time of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Bradstreet is the 4,534th most popular writer (down from 4,390th in 2019), the 3,567th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,134th in 2019) and the 388th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Anne Bradstreet ranks 4,534 out of 7,302. Before her are Almudena Grandes, Willem Elsschot, Mike Resnick, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, and Attilâ İlhan. After her are José María Heredia y Heredia, Vera Inber, Bolesław Leśmian, R. K. Narayan, Vera Panova, and Runer Jonsson.

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Among people born in 1612, Anne Bradstreet ranks 24. Before her are Janusz Radziwiłł, John Albert Vasa, Frans Post, Louis, Duke of Vendôme, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, and August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After her are Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Pier Francesco Mola, and Richard Crashaw. Among people deceased in 1672, Anne Bradstreet ranks 21. Before her are Anne Marie Martinozzi, Madeleine Béjart, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Marie of the Incarnation, Georg Stiernhielm, and Guy Patin. After her is Francis Willughby.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Bradstreet ranks 3,568 out of 8,785. Before her are Michael Moran (1948), George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923), Anohni (1971), Tina Charles (1954), Donald Watson (1910), and Jimmy McGrory (1904). After her are Thomas Moran (1837), Martin McDonagh (1970), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Amanda Abbington (1974), and Anne Hutchinson (1591).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anne Bradstreet ranks 388. Before her are Minette Walters (1949), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Anita Brookner (1928), Grace Elliott (1754), Michael Morpurgo (1943), and John Stott (1921). After her are Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Grace Aguilar (1816), Winston Graham (1908), Robert Bolt (1924), Thomas Nashe (1567), and Elizabeth Goudge (1900).

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