The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards

by Ava Chamberlain

Who was Elizabeth Tuttle?

In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a Puritan hero. Elizabeth Tuttle was Edwards's "crazy grandmother," the one whose madness and adultery drove his despairing grandfather to divorce...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814723721
• ISBN13: 9780814723722
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"