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“To My Dear Children” was written by Anne Bradstreet and published circa 1661. It is in the pubic domain and was taken from the text edited by Helen Campbell entitled. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time.
- Anne Bradstreet
- 2019
37. Anne Bradstreet. To my Dear Children: This Book by Any yet unread, I leave for you when I am dead, That, being gone, here you may find. What was your living mother’s mind. Make use of what I leave in Love. And God shall blesse you from above. A. B. My Dear Children:
To My Dear Children. An Electronic Edition · Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) Original Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse. Edited by John Harvard Ellis. (Charlestown: A. E. Cutter, 1867) Copyright 2003. This text is freely available provided the text is distributed with the header information provided. Full Colophon Information
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The method I will observe shall bee this — I will begin with God’s dealing with me from my childhood to this Day. In my young years, about 6 or 7 as I take it, I began to make conscience of my wayes, and what I knew was sinful, as lying, disobedience to Par-ents, &c., I avoided it. If at any time I was overtaken with the like evills, it was ...
Bradstreet immigrated to the new world with her husband and parents in 1630; in 1633 the first of her children, Samuel, was born, and her seven other children were born between 1635 and 1652: Dorothy (1635), Sarah (1638), Simon (1640), Hannah (1642), Mercy (1645), Dudley (1648), and John (1652).
My Dear Children: Knowing by experience that the exhortations of parents take most effect when the speakers leave to speak, and those especially sink deepest which are spoke latest — and being ignorant whether on my death-bed I shall have opportunity to speak to any of you, much lesse to All — thought it the best, whilst I was able to compose some short matters, (for what else to call them ...
To my Dear Children, by Anne Bradstreet | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous. Anne Bradstreet. To my Dear Children. This book by any yet unread, I leave for you when I am dead, That being gone, here you may find. What was your living mother's mind. Make use of what I leave in Love. And God shall bless you from above. 1672.
