1. In many ways it was unorthodox for a women to publish her work; what are some reasons you believe the Puritans might have been more tolerant of Anne Bradstreet as a public person than they were of, say, Anne Hutchison?
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2. Look closely at the four poems Bradstreet writes to commemorate deaths (her father’s and those commemorating the death of the infants). How, if at all, does her tone (attitude) changed in these poems? Does her faith/ and or doctrine change?