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Bradstreet

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Brad·street  (brdstrt), Anne Dudley 1612-1672.
English-born colonial poet who wrote several collections of verse, including The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). Her husband, Simon (1603-1697), was a colonial administrator and governor of Massachusetts (1679-1686 and 1689-1692).
Bradstreet [ˈbrædˌstriːt]
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(Biographies / Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley) (?1612-1672) F, USnational of birth: English, WRITING: poet) Anne (Dudley). ?1612-72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
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Noun1.Bradstreet - poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)
Anne Bradstreet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet
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"Governor Bradstreet was a venerable old man, nearly ninety years of age," said Grandfather.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
While this cry was at the loudest, the people were surprised by the well-known figure of Governor Bradstreet himself, a patriarch of nearly ninety, who appeared on the elevated steps of a door, and, with characteristic mildness, besought them to submit to the constituted authorities.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Inspector Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities.
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