Bringing together an original 1682 narrative, documenting a Puritan womans captivity among Native Americans in southeastern New England during King Philips War, with 21 supportive documents, Sovereignty and Goodness of God, highlights todays scholars understanding of issues...
Considered to be America's first best-seller, the Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) tells a harrowing true story captivity and escape. During King Philip's War, a woman in Colonial Massachusetts...
Considered the first American "bestseller", "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God" follows Mary Rowlandson's three month holding by the American Algonquian Indians. The first by an Anglo-American woman, Mrs. Rowlandson's narrative remains a classic tale of captivity, which...
The year was 1675. The place Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mrs. Mary Rowlandson's life was about to be shattered. This is her telling of the horrors and heartaches of her captivity during King Phillip's War and her eventual restoration to the remainder of her family. Newly updated...
Mary (White) Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured during an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held ransom for 11 weeks and 5 days. After being released, she wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,...
"THE FIRST AMERICAN BESTSELLER"Mary Rowlandson, a colonial American captured during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed, wrote of her ordeal in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson...
""A Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"" is a memoir written by Mary Rowlandson, an English colonist who was taken captive by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675. The book chronicles her experiences during her eleven-week captivity...
Mary (White) Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured during an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held ransom for 11 weeks. After being released, she wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, also known...
The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed, being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, commended her, to all that desires to know the Lord's doings to, and dealings with her. Especially to her...
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Considered the first American "bestseller", this early captivity narrative follows Mary Rowlandson's three month holding by the American Algonquian Indians. The first by an Anglo-American woman, Mrs. Rowlandson's "Narrative" remains a classic. Captivating to readers since its...