Lone Journey (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanette Eaton
- First Published: 1944
- Time of Work: 1603–1683
- Setting: England, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
- Principal Characters: Roger Williams, Sir Edward Coke, John Cotton, Oliver Cromwell, John Winthrop, Sir Henry Vane
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Politics, Colonies or colonization, Religion, New England, Ministry or ministers, Native Americans or American Indians, Preaching, Biography, Puritans or Puritanism, Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Locales: England, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
Form and Content
In Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams, Jeanette Eaton has written a sympathetic account of Williams’ life and times that emphasizes his firm belief in freedom of conscience and religious toleration. The story begins when Williams was sixteen years old and employed as a shorthand clerk in official proceedings by the amiable Sir Edward Coke, a lawyer who shared his Puritan beliefs. Determined to help Williams acquire a suitable education, Coke granted him a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, which was then a center of Puritanism. After he...
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