The Winthrop Woman -- Anya Seton

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First Edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958, Hardback - Historical Fiction - 558pp. Shelfware with foxing to endpapers. Gift-inscription inside.
A biographical novel of Elizabeth Winthrop, a courageous woman who defied Puritan conventions and beliefs. From the bestselling author of Katherine, this is the richly detailed story of her struggle against hardship and adversity in the new American colonies of the 17th Century.
In 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 Setons 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
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 Tribune
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