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Anne's brother was married to John Winthrop's daughter. Her brother- in-law, John Woodbridge, was the minister of the church in Andover, where she finally settled. Her daughter married Seaborn Cotton. Her father was a committed Puritan ...
Anne's brother was married to John Winthrop's daughter. Her brother- in-law, John Woodbridge, was the minister of the church in Andover, where she finally settled. Her daughter married Seaborn Cotton. Her father was a committed Puritan ...
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Over time Colden submits himself to faith in a "Divine Parent and Judge," and he and Jane are joined in a marriage that seems to symbolize Brown's own compromise between his early questioning and the later acquiescence that paved the ...
Over time Colden submits himself to faith in a "Divine Parent and Judge," and he and Jane are joined in a marriage that seems to symbolize Brown's own compromise between his early questioning and the later acquiescence that paved the ...
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She was married and performed the social offices of wife and mother, bearing six children whom she loved deeply. ... equal: she enjoyed an unprecedented degree of freedom to determine her own role in marriage while he was alive; ...
She was married and performed the social offices of wife and mother, bearing six children whom she loved deeply. ... equal: she enjoyed an unprecedented degree of freedom to determine her own role in marriage while he was alive; ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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