Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles Women in colonial America lived much different lives than those of today’s women. Although gender-specific roles existed and were enforced by society’s watchful eye, many women stepped beyond these rigid guidelines and became writers. Sarah Kemble Knight and Anne Bradstreet, although differing in writing style and format and personal background, shared in the struggle for literary freedom and became two such pioneering women writers. Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Kemble Knight each wrote with different styles throughout their lit