the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
LaPlante, Eve
2004
Chronicles the life of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman banished from Massachusetts in 1637 for her unconventional religious beliefs and the threat she posed, as an outspoken woman, to social order in the colony.
A brief biography of Anne Hutchinson that chronicles her early years in England, marriage and follower of Puritan John Cotton, journey to Massachusetts, banishment to Rhode Island, and death.
Looks at the life of Anne Hutchinson, the daughter of a minister in early seventeenth-century England who moved to the American colonies in search of religious freedom, and whose beliefs were influential in the development of the Bill of Rights.
Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.