A novel based on the life of Elizabeth Winthrop, who married into the family of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and moved to the wild New World, is "that rare literary accomplishment--living history [that] gives closer reality to a period than do...
""The Winthrop Woman" is that rare literary accomplishment -- living history. Really good fictionalized history like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." - "Chicago Tribune" In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set...