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  • Written by: Anya Seton
  • Narrated by: Corrie James
  • Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Written by: Anya Seton
Narrated by: Corrie James
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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 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.

©1958 Anya Seton Chase (P)2014 Tantor Media
Biographical Fiction English Historical Fiction
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"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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wonderful historical novel of a real woman.

written in 1958 yet matches current views of first nations' relationship to newcomer. Also, describes how religion played such a large part of the founding of the USA.

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