Anne Bradstreet’s poetry collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was published, making Bradstreet the first published female writer in America.
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672) was an English Puritan who sailed with her family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Bradstreet became the first woman published in England and America with the release of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650. Her work often dealt with religious and domestic themes.