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Tag: Dudley

Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the Colony’s First Published Poet

July 30, 2026September 7, 2026 Gordon Harris

Often alone in Ipswich while her husband Simon was engaged in government, Anne Bradstreet wrote a collection of poems published in London in 1650 titled, "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America...by a Gentlewoman in these Parts."

Posted in Arts, History, PeopleTagged 1634, Andover, Bradstreet, Dudley, Ipswich artists, women
Ipswich MA historic photos by William Varrel

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