Anne Hutchinson
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Theology, Theologians
- Curriculum: Women’s History, American Colonial History (1607-1775), British History, Renaissance History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: Through promotion of radical religious beliefs and challenges to the social order, Hutchinson became the focal point of great tensions within Massachusetts Bay Colony, a patriarchal biblical commonwealth.
Early Life
Anne Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, in 1591. As the second of thirteen children of Francis Marbury, an outspoken and often-censured Anglican minister, and his second wife, Bridget Dryden Marbury, Anne Hutchinson probably gained a knowledge of theology and a familiarity with disputatious public discourse from...
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