What could you say about early American women writers other than: Thank you? Early American women writers opened doors and laid the foundation for future women writers and readers. Today's women raise children, take care of the house and work outside the home with all the modern conveniences available, and as you would expect they do not find time to write, except for the shopping list. Early American women raised children and kept homes without today's modern conveniences and somehow found time to write the first "New World" poetry. For example, Everette Emerson provides a photo of Anne Bradstreet, a housewife who stole hours of sleep because writing had given rise to American women writers (4). Different writing styles emerged from various early American women writers in each century, setting a precedent for those who followed. Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, Hannah Foster, Susanna Rowson, and Louisa May Alcott established new forms of literary styles such as poetry, letters, fiction, and novels in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Anne Bradstreet established the domestic tradition in American Poetry in the 17th century. The first book of poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was "The Tenth Muse", with the help of her brother-in-law it was published in 1650. "Anne was a Puritan woman of deep spiritual faith, but her highly intelligent personality and a well-trained mind was capable of questioning and even rebelling” (Piercy 17). During Anne Bradstreet's Puritan era, the idea was one of community and God. According to Katherine M. Rogers, "In her "Prologue," Bradstreet acknowledged that many of her contemporaries thought a needle best suited her hand than a pen" (Meridian 11.5.2). She rea... middle of the paper... you could say about early American women writers except, thank you? Bibliography Elbert, Sarah, ed. Louisa May Alcott on race, sex and slavery. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. Emerson, Everett. Major writers of early American literature. London: The University of Wisconsin Press, Ltd., 1972.The Heath Anthology of American Literature, third edition, volume 1. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson. The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.Mason Jr., Julian D. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. The University of North Carolina Press, 1966.Piercy, Josephine K. Anne Bradstreet. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1965. Rogers, Katherine M., ed. The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers. New York: Meridian, 1991.