Anne Bradstreet’s Bible

Type of Work

Article

Date

12-2018

Journal Title

Notes and Queries

Journal ISSN

0029-3970

Journal Volume

65

Journal Issue

4

First Page

565

Last Page

566

DOI

10.1093/notesj/gjy161

Abstract

Critics have long assumed that Anne Bradstreet, the English poet and gentlewoman who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her extended family in 1630, used the Geneva Bible (1560). Textual evidence from the writing that survives—The Tenth Muse (London, 1650), the posthumous Several Poems (Boston, 1678), and the collection known as the Andover manuscript—demonstrates that, although Bradstreet had access to the Geneva Bible, she preferred the language of the King James version (1611) and likely had a copy with her in Massachusetts.

Hamilton Areas of Study

Literature and Creative Writing

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