ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Bradstreet suffered illness all her life: she contracted smallpox at sixteen and much of her writing reflects domestic fears and the fear of loved ones dying.

Detailed explanation-2: -Her sixty years of life were troubled by recurring sickness and ill health, beginning with an attack of smallpox when she was sixteen. Shortly after recovering, she married her father’s assistant, Simon Bradstreet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anne was born in Northampton, England, 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. Due to her family’s position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anne Bradstreet, “In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August, 1665. Being a year and half old, ” The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse (Charlestown: A. E. Cutter, 1867).