Meanwell is a twenty-four poem sequence in which a female servant
searches for identity and meaning in the shadow of her mistress,
poet Anne Bradstreet. Although Meanwell herself is a fiction,
someone like her could easily have existed among Bradstreet's known
but unnamed domestic servants. Through Meanwell's eyes, Bradstreet
emerges as a human figure during The Great Migration of the 1600s,
a period in which the Massachusetts Bay Colony was fraught with
physical and political dangers. Through Meanwell, the feelings of
women, silenced during the midwife Anne Hutchinson's fiery trial
before the Puritan ministers, are finally acknowledged. In effect,
the poems are about the making of an American rebel. Through her
conflicted conscience, we witness Meanwell's transformation from a
powerless English waif to a mythic American who ultimately chooses
wilderness over the civilization she has experienced.
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