The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided

by Michael P. Winship

Book Overview

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed Making Heretics, provides a startlingly new and fresh account of her oft-told tale, disentangling what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long.

During the 1630s, religious controversies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613803
• ISBN13: 9780700613809
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Revisiting Anne Hutchinson

As an American Studies major in the late sixties, I understood the tale of Anne Hutchinson as the fleeting hint of a nascent feminism in the New World, a feminism that, almost 400 years later, took root and transformed American culture during my young adulthood. Michael Winship's The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson removes imposed meanings to reveal Anne Hutchinson as a quintessential puritan losing a passionate and destructive struggle to define piety and salvation. Because the dogmatic intolerance at the soul of of puritanism still colors the political discourse of our own day, Winship's scholarship, translated into readable and engaging prose, is a valuable contribution to our understanding of where we come from and where, without consciousness of our roots, we may be headed.

Anne Hutchinson

This was a gift for a friend of mine, and she was very happy with the book.