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��In Lincolnshire, Dudley's resi- dence at, xiii.

Bowtell, Stephen, publisher of the first edition of the " Poems," 79.

Bradstreet, Anna, a modern poet,

Ixix 71.

Bradstreet, Anne, v-x, 2. 3, 21, 24, 30 n.. 39, 44 ;/., 46. 73. 74, 78, 79, 81, S3, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 and ;/.,90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 99, 165, 180, 346 «.,

39 1' 394» 395. 39S, 399> 4°! '^-^ 403, 406, 408, 413 ti.

Earliest poet of her sex in Amer- ica, xi. Daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, ib. Wife of Gov. Simon Bradstreet, ih. Her ancestry, xi- ii. Her father, xi-iv. Hermother, xii-iii, xxxi, lii-iii. Her birth, xiv. Her education, xiv. Her youth and religious experiences, xiv-v, 3-10. Her reminiscence of an English fair, xv, 354. Opportu- nities for improving her literary tastes, xv-xxi. Comfort she took in reading the Bible, xiv, xvii, 4. Literary age in which she was brought up, xv-xxi. Her mar- riage, XV, xxi, liii «., 5. Goes to America, xv, 5. Embarks, prob- ably on the " Arbella," xxvii. The passage, xxvii-viii. Lands at Sa- lem, xxix. Goes to Charlestown, xxxi. Signs the covenant of the First Church, xv, xxxi-ii. 5. Life at Charlestown, xxxii Moves to Boston, ib. Moves to Cambridge, xxxiii. House at Cambridge, ib. Life at Cambridge, xxxiii - iv. Moves to Ipswich, xxxv. Her residence at Ipswich, xxxvi, 85 «., 394. Moves to Andover, xxxvi. Her house there, xxxvii-viii. Its burning, xxxvii, Ixi-ii. 40. 329. Publication of her ''Poems " with- out her knowledge, by her brother- in-law, the Rev. John Woodbridge, xxxix-xl. Her character, xl. Com- mended in verse by the Rev. N. Ward and others, xl-xli. Ana- grams on her name, xli, 98. Ar- rangement and plan of her '•Poems," xli-ii. Their merit, xlii How far original, xlii-lii. Her knowledge of the Greek and Latin writers, xliii-iv. Her in- debtedness to Sir Walter Raleigh's " History of the World," xliii-ix; to Archbishop Usher's "Annals," xliii-iv ; to the Hebrew Writings,

��xliii; to Pemble's Treatise, ib.:, to North's Plutarch, xlix-1; to Crooke's Anatomy. 1. Her famili- arity with the Bible and use of the Genevan version, ib. Her obliga- tion to Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas, li. Her fondness for Sidney's works and her criticisms on them, lii. Her knowledge of the works of Speed, Camden, and Spenser,/^. Time when her earlier '"Poems" were written, ib. Her mother's death and her epitaph on her, lii-iii. Her father's death, liii-iv. Her father her teacher, Iv. Her eight children, Ivii. Her verses on them, ib. Writes her religious experiences for them. ib. Her delicate constitution and fre- quent sicknesses, ib. Her Chris- tian resignation, Ivii-viii. Her religious doubts, Iviii. Her love for her children, ib. Her morbid views of life, ib. Her belief in the efficacy of prayer, ib. Her son Samuel's visit to England. Iviii-ix. Had no child for a long time af- ter marriage, lix. Her husband's mission to England in January, 1661-2, lix-lxi. Her verses to him during his absence, 32-9. Writes the " Meditations," Ixi. Dedicates them to her son Simon, ib., 47. Their originality, Ixi. Loss of her papers by the burningof her house, Ixi-ii, 40, 329. Her daily life, Ixii. Her position as a woman writer, ib. Her rambles in the woods and along the Merrimac, Ixiii. Writes the " Contemplations," ib. Their excellence, ib. Revision or her "Poems," Ixi v. Nature of her alterations, ib. A Puritan and yet a Monarchist, ib Her hatred of Papists, ib.^ 9, 340-1. Longing for death, ib. Her last sickness and death, Ixiv-v, 409. Her burial- place unknown, Ixv. No portrait of her in existence, ib. Edward Phillips's notice of her, //;. Cotton Mather's eulogy on her, Ixv-vi. Rev. John Norton's Funeral Elegy on her, 409-13. Her handwriting, viii. Fac-simile of it, between 46 and 47, first edition of her '•Poems." V, vii-viii. x, xl-iii, xlix, lii, 79. Second edition, v, vii-viii, xli «., xlix-1, lii, Ixiii, Ixiv, Ixvi, 81, 413. Third edition, v-vii.

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