by Philippa Gregory, Anya Seton
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.
3* Katherine
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...
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 ...
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...
This is an enjoyable, compelling and detailed work of historical fiction, which I'd rate on par with Seton's most popular novel, Katherine. The Winthrop Woman tells the story of a real-life Englishwoman who moved to the American colonies in the seventeenth century and struggled with the strict relig...
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