Anne Bradstreet
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![Memorial marker for Anne Bradstreet in the Old North Parish Burial Ground, North Andover, Massachusetts](/Images/godic/202412/21/Anne_Bradstreet_Memorial_N_Andover_Cem3904.jpg")
![Title page, second (posthumous) edition of Bradstreet's poems, 1678](/Images/godic/202412/21/Bradstreet_first_edition3904.jpg")
![Title page, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, printed at London, 1650](/Images/godic/202412/21/The_Tenth_Muse_by_Anne_Bradstreet3905.jpg")
Anne Bradstreet (born Anne Dudley; March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature.