Anne Bradstreet And Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles

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allows her to comment and pass judgment on any of various things she encountered. She was a keen social observer and she was not hesitant to write with humor of those people by whom she was entertained. Her accounts are mostly non-fictional with a bit of reflective observation; she spares no details to good taste.
Knight and Bradstreet emerged from very different backgrounds. Bradstreet was raised in the house of a British nobleman. At sixteen, she married a scholar who eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. She came to America with her husband and parents, and she moved with her husband to a small town outside of Boston, where she lived as a devoted Puritan wife and mother of eight. Her husband, children, and religion frequently appeared as topics of her work. Knight lived a completely different life. She became both a businesswoman and a schoolteacher, both rather unusual professions for women of the day. Although she never married, she was remarkably ...

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