学界有关早期美国女性文学的研究主要聚焦于诗人安妮.布拉兹特里特,对其他女性作家则几乎不曾涉及。本文以美国17世纪女性文学创作为背景,简要介绍了一位极其重要的早期美国女性作家——玛丽.罗兰森的生活经历、她的代表作品和她所采用的体裁,揭示了她对后世文学的影响,并肯定了她对美国文学特别是美国女性文学所做的重大贡献。 Academic research on early American women’s literature focused primarily on the poet Anne Bradstrit, but rarely on other female writers. This article, based on the writings of female literature in the United States in the 17th century, briefly introduces the life experience of an extremely important American female writer, Mary Rowland, her representative works and the genres she uses, And affirmed her great contribution to the American literature, especially the American female literature.