Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Prophet, 1st edition

Ideal supplement for U.S. History survey course as well as courses in Colonial American History, History of Women in America, American Religious History, and American Biography.

Examines the life of this perennially fascinating and controversial woman within the dynamic social and cultural contexts of seventeenth-century England and North America.

Drawing upon the latest scholarship, Timothy D. Hall presents Hutchinson as a literate, highly intelligent agent of a militant Protestant vanguard pressing to extend English influence into the new world. Hall explores the charges brought against Hutchinson and analyzes her responses to them, and he provides thorough coverage of her continued influence in other communities after her trial and expulsion from the Massachusetts Bay colony.

Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

• Reflects a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusive history, highlighting the experience of women in Colonial and Revolutionary America.
  
• Focuses attention on the Atlantic context of Colonial American history.
  
• Offers fresh insight into the varied and clashing strains of English Protestantism, its impact on the experience of early modern English women, and its role in the development of the United States.
  
• Places Hutchinson’s arrival in Boston within the context of the Great Migration to New England, exploring the impulses that prompted so many to migrate and the dynamics of community life in the fledgling colony.
  
• Explores Hutchinson’s religious activities within the context of transatlantic Puritanism and the specific theological and social environment of Boston in the mid-1630s.
  
• Probes the gender dimensions of the famed trial and examines what the proceedings reveal about the tensions and dynamics of Puritanism in Boston and militant Protestantism in the Atlantic World.
  
• An epilogue provides a concluding assessment of Hutchinson’s significance in her own time as well as her subsequent role as an icon of American history.
  
• Features a preface from series editor Mark C. Carnes that illustrates why this biography is such an important addition to the series.
  
• Study and Discussion Questions at the end of the book help students check their reading and comprehension. These questions can also be used to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups.