The Prologue Resources

This site, from The Poetry Foundation, has good biographical info on Anne B.

If you're interested in some background info on early colonial Massachusetts, here's a good place to start.

This lady dressed up like Anne Bradstreet to read her poetry in North Andover, MA—mad props for the commitment.

Charlotte Gordon wrote a biography of Bradstreet called Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet. Hear her talk about it on NPR.

Here's a really nice reading of "A Love Letter to Her Husband," in case you want a flavor of her other poems.

Check out her portrait here. What's she thinking about?

It's kind of cool to get a feeling for what this book would have looked like right off the press.

We don't have any authentic pictures of Bradstreet, or even an original gravestone. This marker was put up later.