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§ Almanacs and governmental publications § Biographies: Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph (1700) § Colonial issues: “Propositions Made by the Five Nations of Indians” (1698); Daniel Gould’s account of the 1660 Quaker dissenters in Boston, A Brief Narrative of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers (1700); Thomas Maule’s New England’s Persecutors Mauled with Their Own Weapons (1697) § Literary of Witness: British author Francis Brooks tells of European captives in North Africa, in Barbarian Cruelties (1700) § Sermons:

§ Cotton Mather (1663 -1728): the most prolific colonial author § The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) A people of God in the Devil’s territories The trial of Martha Carrier

§ The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung in America: first published in London in 1650. § She did not attended school; educated by her father; Thomas Dudley, a "devourer of books“ § Library of the estate of the Earl of Lincoln: she lived there while her father was steward from 1619 to 1630. She read, for instance, Virgil, Plutarch, Pliny, Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Seneca, as well as Spenser, Milton, Hobbes, Joshua Sylvester's 1605 translation of Guillaume du Bartas's Divine Weeks and Workes, and the Geneva version of the Bible. § In general, she benefited from the Elizabethan tradition that valued female education. § Bradstreet immigrated to New England with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, and parents in 1630, on the Arbella, docked at Salem, Massachusetts.

§ Even though she ostensibly reconciled herself to the Puritan mission (she wrote that she "submitted to it and joined the Church at Boston“), Bradstreet remained ambivalent about the issues of salvation and redemption for most of her life. § Her work reflects the religious and emotional conflicts she experienced as a woman writer and as a Puritan. § Throughout her life Bradstreet was concerned with the issues of sin and redemption, physical and emotional frailty, death and immortality. § Much of her work, especially her later poems, demonstrates impressive intelligence and mastery of poetic form. § Bradstreet also demonstrates a mastery of physiology, anatomy, astronomy, Greek metaphysics, and the concepts of medieval and Renaissance cosmology.