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Title: The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton ISBN: 0-395-08176-9 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: June, 1958 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $33.65 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely Book
Comment: This is not my favorite of Anya Seton's novels (that would be Katherine), but it is worthwhile and fairly engrossing to read.
I wonder why some enterprising publisher doesn't re-issue her books? It is so sad that they're all out of print.
Rating: 5
Summary: PURITAN NO MORE...
Comment: This is a dazzling work of historical fiction that I first read as a young adult. Now, over thirty years after first reading it, I find that time has not diminished the power and passion of this exquisitely written work of historical fiction. At the heart of this fine novel, is Elizabeth Fones, an Englishwoman who would marry her first cousin, Harry Winthrop, and would go on to lead a life of which few of us would dream.
As a member of the austerely Puritan Winthrop family, Elizabeth would chafe under its restrictive influences. When the family fortunes abated in England due to the religious beliefs of the family patriarch, John Winthrop, Elizabeth's uncle and father-in-law, the entire family sets off for the New World to become founding members of the Massachusetts Bay colony, a theocracy under which Elizabeth was to know much heartache.
A passionate and vibrant woman, Elizabeth would have a number of personal situations that would cause her to become notorious amongst the Puritan colonists. She would be both reviled and admired for her actions, which were singular for those times. This is an absorbing, page turner of a book that takes a look at sixteenth century England during the tumultuous time that preceded the civil war that would see an act of regicide and the rise of Puritan Oliver Cromwell. It also relates the turmoil that underlay the government of the nascent Massachusetts Bay colony with all its factionalism, restrictive practices, and bigotry.
The novel, set against a historical backdrop filled with well known personages of the time, both English and Dutch, lovingly chronicles and explores Elizabeth's passage in life as a member of the illustrious Winthrop family, her troubled marriages, her relationship with the Siwanot Indians, and the trials and tribulations that she underwent as a compassionate, independent woman in a time when to be such was to destine oneself to become a pariah within the larger community.
This is a historical novel that is epic in its telling, beautifully written, and one to be savored until the very last page is turned. Bravo!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Childhood Favorite
Comment: It is fun to remember books that made an impression on you as a young adult. An aunt gave this book to me when I turned thirteen and it is still in my top ten.
I recently re-read it again after reading Tracy Chevalier's, "Girl With a Pearl Earring." Both books are set during the 1600's -- although one in Delft and the other in England and early America.
I have recommended this book to several people over the years and not one has been disappointed. It is such a fabulous story (and you learn lots to boot!). Unfortunately, it is out of print -- but do not despair, it is easily found in used book stores.
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Title: Dragonwyck by Anya Seton ISBN: 156849484X Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Katherine by Anya Seton ISBN: 0899668143 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: Green Darkness by Anya Seton ISBN: 0899669468 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: The Hearth and Eagle by Anya Seton ISBN: 0395081726 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: June, 1948 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Avalon by Anya Seton ISBN: 039508170X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: June, 1965 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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