{"id":101,"date":"2008-12-11T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-12-11T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:08:00","slug":"cheryl-st-john-and-anne-bradstreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/cheryl-st-john-and-anne-bradstreet","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl St John and Anne Bradstreet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, one of my writer friends, Cheryl St John, has chosen to write about the first American <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">woman<\/span> writer. Cheryl is a multi-published, award-winning author who is one of the founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petticoatsandpistols.com\">www.PetticoatsandPistols.com<\/a>, a very lively, authoritative and fun site devoted to the American West in its glory days. If you haven&#8217;t visited, please drop by. Now for Cheryl&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnvVQIMI\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/4dP5Vy0OLZg\/s1600-h\/annbradstreet.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnvVQIMI\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/4dP5Vy0OLZg\/s200\/annbradstreet.bmp\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278611971649839298\" border=\"0\" \/>  <\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnsV7JGI\/AAAAAAAAADA\/7SIjSGI2WbA\/s1600-h\/annbradstreet-252x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnsV7JGI\/AAAAAAAAADA\/7SIjSGI2WbA\/s200\/annbradstreet-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278611970847351906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 1ex;\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >&#8220;My choice of a strong woman in our history&#8211;Anne Bradstreet.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Though Anne Bradstreet is known as the  first woman to have had a book published in the United States, it\u2019s  most likely there were others before her, but none recognized as written  by women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >English -born Anne was the daughter of  Thomas Dudley, steward to the earl of Lincoln, and she grew up in the  cultured surroundings of Tattershall Castle.  Though theirs was  a strictly religious household, her father, a Nonconformist, educated  her himself, as well as having her tutored in history, several languages  and literature\u2013highly unusual for a female.  More fortunate than  other girls, Anne had access to the castle library.  Anne married  when she was sixteen.  Yikes!  We can hardly conceive of it,  but it was common practice.  Simon Bradstreet\u2019s father had been  a Puritan minister, and Simon remained in the care of the Dudleys after  his father\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Two years later in 1630, the entire family  made the arduous journey to New England in hopes of setting up plantation  colonies.  With a husband and father of status in the new colonies,  Anne held a visible position of status.  What with climate, lack  of food and primitive conditions, life was far more difficult than in  jolly old England.  A second bout of smallpox left Anne with paralyzed  joints, though she raised eight children and ran a household.   Simon often traveled to other colonies, leaving her to read, educate  her children, and write poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Anne\u2019s brother-in-law, John Woodbridge,  secretly copied her work and took it to England where he had \u201cThe  Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts\u201d  published.  It was a tribute to her childhood and what she\u2019d  left behind.  Her mature work was never published until after her  death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Cultural bias toward women was common  in her time\u2013a woman\u2019s place was in the home.  Period.   Women were intellectual inferiors.  Critics thought Anne stole  her ideas from men, and her writing was criticized because of her gender.  The public had a harsh reaction to her role as a female writer. When  the book<i> <\/i>was released, the idea that she was a virtuous women  had to be stressed. Her brother-in-law even wrote: \u201cBy a Gentle Women  in Those Parts\u201d on the title page to assure readers that Anne didn\u2019t  neglect her duties as a Puritan woman in order to write.  He saw  the need to clarify that she found time for her poetry by sacrificing  sleep and using what little leisure time she had.  I\u2019m probably  not the only wife\/mother\/author who can identify with that! We can see  the anger that Bradstreet felt toward criticism in the following lines:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >I am obnoxious to each carping  tongue<br \/>Who says my hand a needle better fits;<br \/>A poet\u2019s pen all scorn I should thus wrong,<br \/>For such despite they cast on female wits.<br \/>If what I do prove well, it won\u2019t advance;<br \/>They\u2019ll say it\u2019s stol\u2019n, or else it was by chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >There were other women writers during  the early years in the colonies, those who wrote poems and essays that  have been preserved as part of American culture, but Anne is known as  the first American female poet.  It\u2019s likely that other women\u2019s  work was published anonymously or with a male pseudonym.  It\u2019s  estimated that one third of all the American novels written up to 1820  were by women authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >It\u2019s interesting to realize that Anne  wrote in a time and a culture when a woman seeking knowledge was considered  against God\u2019s will.  Her writing reveals her faith, her devotion  to God, and to her husband and family, but it also shows that she was  a freethinker and probably one of the first feminists.  Recurring  themes in her poems were love for her husband and pleas with God to  watch over her children and husband. Anne developed tuberculosis and  died at the age of sixty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >In looking for paintings or drawings  of Anne, these two recurred.  One is actually labeled as a painting  of Anne Bradstreet, the other, which is often used with her biography  is a Rembrandt, titled, \u201cA Woman With A Pink.\u201d  I couldn\u2019t  find information to substantiate that this was indeed a portrait of  Anne Bradstreet, though both she and the famous painter were alive during  this time period.  It\u2019s certainly possible.  If anyone knows,  I\u2019d love to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >We may have come a long way, baby, but  women\u2019s writing still gets less respect than that of our male counterparts.   We are the relationship storytellers who keep love and romance alive,  and it\u2019s what makes the world go \u2018round.  Though our genre  holds the biggest piece of the publishing pie, many still turn up their  nose at fiction written by women for women.  Only a few years ago,  women suspense writers wrote under male pseudonyms to be published.   At least we\u2019re reviewed on the merit of our work, and not because  we\u2019re women!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Hats off to Anne Bradstreet, a forward  thinking woman who paved the way for women writers!  If Anne were  here today, what would you like to ask her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Cheryl St.John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Romancing the West: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petticoatsandpistols.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  ><u>http:\/\/petticoatsandpistols.<wbr>com\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnzdaEwI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/dKQriScKUs4\/s1600-h\/tombstoneannebradstreet-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SUFlnzdaEwI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/dKQriScKUs4\/s200\/tombstoneannebradstreet-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278611972757787394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, one of my writer friends, Cheryl St John, has chosen to write about the first American woman writer. 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