Article: The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson.(Book review)

The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson. By Michael P. Winship. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 168. $35.00.)

Anne Hutchinson's image in the popular mind may be that of a crusader for religious freedom, a champion of feminism, a martyr to the cause of free speech, or all three. But the author of this work disdains those traditional interpretations of her role in seventeenth-century Massachusetts history. His goal is to return to the historical Hutchinson rather than the legendary one, to see her in the context of her own world, one obsessed by theological differences. The result is an absorbing tale of intrigue set against the piety ...

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