“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
About Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672
Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in Northampton, England, into a family unusually well positioned to cultivate both religious seriousness and intellectual ambition. Her precise birth date is uncertain, though she was baptized on March 20, 1612. She entered the world during the reign of James I, in an…