A Jury of Her Peers Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx #9781400034420

IA New Literature Springs Up in the New WorldFrom the very beginning, women were creating the new words of the New World. The first women writers in America, Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and Mary Rowlandson (1637–1711), were born in England and endured the harrowing three-month voyage of storm, seasickness, and starvation across the North Atlantic. In Massachusetts, where they settled, they led lives of extraordinary danger and deprivation. Both married and had children; they thought …