American Jezebel
“[A] fast-paced and elegant. . . . stimulating . . . first-rate biography . . .of a much-neglected figure in early American religious history.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women co...
“[A] fast-paced and elegant. . . . stimulating . . . first-rate biography . . .of a much-neglected figure in early American religious history.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women co...
