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Author Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.

Title The works of Anne Bradstreet / Edited by Jeannine Hensley. Foreword by Adrienne Rich.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  811.1 BRADSTREET    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 B    Check Shelf
Description xxxvii, 320 pages facsimile 22 cm.
Series The John Harvard library
John Harvard library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Form Also issued online.
Contents To her most honoured father by A.B. -- Prologue -- Four elements -- Four humors in man's constitution -- Four ages of man -- Four seasons of the year -- Four monarchies -- Dialogue between old England and new : concerning their present troubles, anno, 1642 -- Elegy upon that honorable and renowned knight Sir Philip Sidney who was untimely slain at the siege of Zutphen, anno 1586 -- In honour of Du Bartas, 1641 -- In honour of that high and mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of happy memory -- David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan : II Sam. 1:19 -- To the memory of my dear and ever honoured father Thomas Dudley Esq. who deceased July 31, 1653, and of his age 77 -- Epitaph on my dear and ever-honoured mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, who deceased December 27, 1643, and of her age 61 -- Contemplations -- Flesh and the spirit -- Vanity of all worldly things -- Author to her book.
Upon a fit of sickness, anno 1632 aetatis suae 19 -- Upon some distemper of body -- Before the birth of one of her children -- To my dear and loving husband -- Letter to her husband, absent upon public employment -- Another -- Another -- To her father with some verses -- in reference to her children : 23 June, 1659 -- In memory of my dear grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August, 1665, being a year and half old -- In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet who deceased June 20, 1669, being three years and seven months old -- On my dear grandchild Simon Bradstreet, who died on 16 November, 1669, being but a month and one day old -- To the memory of my dear daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased Sept. 6, 1669, in the 28 year of her age.
To my dear children -- Here follow several occasional meditations -- For deliverence from a fever -- From another sore fit -- Deliverance from a fit of fainting -- Meditations when my sould hath been refreshed with the consolations which the world knows not -- Upon my son Samuel his going for England Nov., 6, 1657 -- For the restoration of my dear husband from a burning ague, June 1, 1661 -- Upon my daughter Hannah Wiggin her recovery from a dangerous fever -- On my son's return out of England July 17, 1661 -- Upon my dear and loving husband his going into England Jan. 16, 1661 -- In my solitary hours in my dear husband his absence -- In thankful acknowledgment for the letters I received from my husband out of England -- In thankful remembrance for my dear husband's safe arrival Sept. 3, 1662 -- For my dear son Simon Bradstreet -- Meditations divine and moral -- Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 : copied out of a loose paper -- As weary pilgrim.
Subject Brackenridge, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816.
Brackenridge, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816. (OCoLC)fst00014880
Added Author Hensley, Jeannine, editor.
Other Form: Online version: Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672. Works of Anne Bradstreet. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967 (OCoLC)559861543
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