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The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
The Winthrop Woman
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“The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records.” – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World.... show more
“The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records.” – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. And so, as a response to this almost unmatched courage and vitality, Governor John Winthrop came to refer to this woman in the historical records of the time as his “unregenerate niece.”Anya Seton’s riveting historical novel portrays the fortitude, humiliation, and ultimate triumph of the Winthrop woman, who believed in a concept of happiness transcending that of her own day.“A rich and panoramic narrative full of gusto, sentimentality and compassion. It is bound to give much enjoyment and a good many thrills.” – Times Literary Supplement“Abundant and juicy entertainment.” – New York Times
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780544222922 (054422292X)
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
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C. P. Lesley
C. P. Lesley rated it
I liked the first third, had every intention of finishing, but probably won't—due to too many other commitments and insufficient interest in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My fault, not the book's. So go ahead. Read it anyway.
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2.0 The Winthrop Woman: A Novel
Finally, I have chugged through Winthrop Woman. It is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House Collection but for adults. I did like these books, but then I was a kid! Indians and witches and cute, super sweet romance, romance and more romance. The romance is so clean it whistles. Forget a spark of p...
Victoria Vane
Victoria Vane rated it
This was slow moving for me and I just couldn't seem to engage with the characters. If the book were shorter I may have stuck with it but I have too many titles on my TBR and too little time for pleasure reading to have to struggle with a read. I felt much the same way about DEVIL WATER when I read ...
misfitandmom
misfitandmom rated it
What an incredible story of an amazing woman. Elizabeth Fones, married into the Winthrop family, the leader of that being John Winthrop who took his family to New England to govern the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Elizabeth was a rare woman indeed, going on to being one of the few women of her times to...
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