![]() ![]() ![]() American author Anya Seton (1904 -1990), was the author of 10 bestselling historical novels, particularly 'Katherine' still one of the most popular historical novels ever written. Anya Seton's 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. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Winthrop Woman. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() 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. The Winthrop Woman - Ebook written by Anya Seton. Against this 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. In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. ![]() Jacket sadly tatty with edge wear, chipping closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket, 2" loss to top of spine, 1" loss to bottom of spine, corners rubbed and bruised, folds rubbed, small 'skinned' patch to top back jacket (removal of old sticky label?), price torn away, no inscriptions, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable, obviously much read, copy for its age. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |