American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... marriage as dear as blood relatives because husband and wife were "one flesh. " This view even extended to the wives and ... married Seaborn Cotton. Her father was a committed Puritan who spent his life denouncing heretics, for which she ...
... marriage as dear as blood relatives because husband and wife were "one flesh. " This view even extended to the wives and ... married Seaborn Cotton. Her father was a committed Puritan who spent his life denouncing heretics, for which she ...
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... married to Elizabeth Linn. His parents refused to attend the Presbyterian wedding, and shortly thereafter he was quietly excommunicated from his Quaker meeting in Philadelphia. In the six years of marriage that followed, Brown was able ...
... married to Elizabeth Linn. His parents refused to attend the Presbyterian wedding, and shortly thereafter he was quietly excommunicated from his Quaker meeting in Philadelphia. In the six years of marriage that followed, Brown was able ...
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... married Thomas O 'Flaherty. As Seyersted observes, "Early marriages were common among the Creoles, and in Eliza's family it had for generations been usual for the girls to marry at about the age of fifteen. " Mrs. O 'Flaherty was a ...
... married Thomas O 'Flaherty. As Seyersted observes, "Early marriages were common among the Creoles, and in Eliza's family it had for generations been usual for the girls to marry at about the age of fifteen. " Mrs. O 'Flaherty was a ...
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