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A review by gmh711
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
4.0
Originally published in 1958, Anya Seton's historical novel is based on the actual life of the spirited Puritan woman, Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett. Bess frequently found herself at odds with her conservative Uncle John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
At a time in history when women were servants to their husbands and child-bearing was a matter of life and death, Bess married three times and displayed an independent spirit to be admired by women of today. The historical facts agree with those posted on Wikipedia, but many unknowns are still left to the imagination of the author supported by many historic documents of the time, including letters written to family members by Bess.
This book gave me a whole new perspective of Puritan New England and Dutch New Amsterdam.
At a time in history when women were servants to their husbands and child-bearing was a matter of life and death, Bess married three times and displayed an independent spirit to be admired by women of today. The historical facts agree with those posted on Wikipedia, but many unknowns are still left to the imagination of the author supported by many historic documents of the time, including letters written to family members by Bess.
This book gave me a whole new perspective of Puritan New England and Dutch New Amsterdam.