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| | Anne Dudley Bradstreet - Notable Women Ancestors |
 | | Anne's childhood was spent in comparative luxury at Tattershall Castle in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where her father was the chief steward of the vast estates of Theophilus Clinton, the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. |
 | | Anne often appears self-deprecating in order to appease the critical males, describing her work as lowly, meanly clad, poor, ragged, foolish, broken, and blemished. |
 | | Anne's prose "Meditations Divine and Moral," written for her son Simon, were found after her death along with many unpublished poems written to her children. |
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