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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
I loved Charlotte Gordon’s joint biography of Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft but this work didn’t feel as thorough or impactful.
An in depth look at the life and times of Anne Dudley Bradstreet, American's first poet and my 10th great-grandmother.
I really enjoyed the first two-thirds of this, and then skimmed more as i got to the end. I knew nothing about Bradstreet before - just picked this up on a whim.
an interesting biography although I found the style left me feeling less interested. I was very interested in some of the history that was presented.
I can't give this book just one star because I might have liked it had I finished it. It is very detailed and I just couldn't get through it all. Also, I was hoping for more bits and pieces of Bradstreet's poetry. Anne Bradstreet, the first published writer in America, made a very important contribution to the history of American literature. But I really did not get much out of this book.
Gordon brings a lot of imagination to this biography but I had issues with some of the sourcing and I thought she sometimes overreached when describing Bradstreet's state of mind.