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Anne Bradstreet was born into an unusual family that in the early years of the 17th century believed in educating daughters as well as sons She then moved to the American wilderness as a young bride and proceeded to produce children and poetry at nearly equal speed in the years that followed Historian Theodore Stanton observed The most of her poems were produced between 1630 and 1642 that is before she was thirty years old and during these years she had neither leisure nor elegant surroundings nor freedom from anxious thoughts nor even abounding health Somehow during her busy lifetime she contrived to put upon record compositions numerous enough to fill a royal octavo volume of 400 pages compositions which entice and reward our reading of them two hundred years after she lived