What could be said to early American women writers, other than thank you? America's first women writers opened doors and laid the foundation for future women writers and readers. Women today raise children, supervise the household and work outside the home with all the modern comforts available and, as one might expect, find no time to write except to a grocery list. Early American women raised children and supervised households without today's modern conveniences and, in one way or another, made time to write the first poetry of the "New World." For example, Everette Emerson gives the image of Anne Bradstreet, a housewife who stole hours of sleep so that writing gave American women writers their beginnings (4). Different writing styles emerged from various early American women writers during 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 like 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. Anne Bradstreet's (1612-1672) first book of poetry 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 his very intelligent mind and a well-educated mind was capable of questioning and even rebellion" (Piercy 17). In Anne Bradstreet's Puritan era, the idea was one of community and God. According to Katherine M. Rogers, "in his 'Prologue,' Bradstreet acknowledged that many of his contemporaries thought a needle suited him better than a pen" (Meridian 11.5.2). ..... could we say of the first American women writers, except, thank you?BibliographyElbert, Sarah, ed. Louisa May Alcott on race, sex and slavery Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. Emerson, Everett. Principal 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.