American Jezebel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Eve LaPlante
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1591-1643
- Setting: Alford and London, England; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, Rhode Island; and New York City
- Principal Characters: Anne Marbury Hutchinson, John Winthrop
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, Religion, Trials, Women, Calvinism, Women’s rights, Puritans or Puritanism, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Massachusetts
- Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA, London, England, Cambridge, MA, Rhode Island
Although the United States dutifully pays homage to its Puritan forebears on Thanksgiving Day, few Americans could give a detailed account of why the Puritans came to claim this new land as their own, much less explain their religious views. Even more problematic is the great historical void in the collective American consciousness, where the image of Plymouth Rock dissolves into the Boston Massacre with cinematic ease. As American Jezebel, Eve LaPlante's splendid biography of her ancestor Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1591-1643), makes clear, much occurred in the interim that is...
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