American Jezebel (40 page)

Authors: Eve LaPlante

“Short Story” (Winthrop), 244–48

Sibbes, Richard, 83

Singing of Psalms a Gospel-Ordinance
(Cotton), 186

Siwanoy Indians, 233; capture and raising of Susan Hutchinson, 238–39; raid and murder of Anne and children, 236–37; Wampage (Ann-Hoeck), chief, 237, 239

Smith, John, 30, 270

Smith, Judith, 216

Smyth, John, 225

Spain: colonial expansion, 6; Spanish Armada, 27

Stone, John, 77

Stoughton, Israel, 79, 110, 121

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 197

Stowe, John, 37

Stuyvesant, Peter, 232

Symmes, Zechariah, 3, 61, 63–65, 123, 157, 183, 198

Tales and Sketches
(Hawthorne), xviii

Tenth Muse…, The
(Bradstreet), 252

Thanksgiving Days, 10

Thomas Creese House, The,
258

1 Timothy: 2:12, 40; 5:22, 24

2 Timothy 4:17–18, 189

Titus: 1:5–9, 24–25; 2:3–5, 39; 3:10, 204

Tobin, Lad, 117, 176, 186

Tothby, England, 144

Transcendentalism, 197

Treatise of the Covenant of Grace, A
(Cotton), 60

Tyler, Moses Coit, 89

Tyndale, William, 42

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe), 197

Underhill, John, 8, 110, 132

Vane, Francis Wray, 254

Vane, Sir Henry (elder), 9

Vane, Sir Henry (younger), 5–6, 8–9, 10, 47, 61, 62, 77, 87, 101–5, 133, 161, 166, 172, 219–20, 247, 254–55, 260; Milton poem, 254

Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 163

Wampanoag Indians, 70, 210; King Philip’s War, 240

Ward, Nathaniel, 228

Ward, Samuel, 95

Warwick, Rhode Island, 223, 234

Watertown, Massachusetts, 72

Weld, Joseph, 136, 158, 159, 260

Weld, Thomas, 2, 9, 47–48, 61, 62, 80–81, 120, 127, 134, 136, 159, 172, 244, 246–47, 248, 250

Wheelwright, John (brother-in-law), 8, 9, 11–12, 15, 49, 52, 56, 62, 78, 106–7, 108, 109, 118, 128, 135, 151, 219; banishment lifted, 248–49; in Exeter, New Hampshire, 12, 208, 209, 248; Fast Day speech, 56, 108; in Hampton,
New Hampshire, 249;
Mercurius Americanus,
248; petition in support of, 78–79, 109–10, 111, 113, 132, 246

Wheelwright, Mary Hutchinson (sister-in-law), 8, 148, 208

Wheelwright, Mary Storre, 148

Williams, John, 94, 97

Williams, Roger, xvi, 6–7, 11, 49, 103, 104, 135, 163, 166; Anabaptists and, 225; chartering of Rhode Island and, 234–35; doctrinal battles with Cotton, 212; education and conversion, 212; flight into wilderness (1636), 210; founding of Providence Plantation, Rhode Island, 210; pioneer of freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, and other freedoms, 6, 210–11, 235; in Salem, 6–7, 210, 212; theology of, 211; Winthrop contrasted with, 211

Williams, Selma, 125

Wilson, Charlotte May, xix–xx, 238

Wilson, John, 3, 7, 9, 11, 55–56, 61–63, 67, 98, 106, 107, 109–10, 112, 134, 153, 156, 170, 177, 178, 180–81, 182, 193, 196, 198, 199, 202, 204–5, 207, 216–17, 251

Winship, Michael, 255, 256

Winthrop, Adam, 7

Winthrop, Henry, 74

Winthrop, John (elder), xvii; Anne Hutchinson and trial, xvii, 1–3, 7–10, 16–18, 23, 39–41, 46, 48–49, 52–54, 55, 60–61, 62, 67–68, 75–81, 106, 111–13, 115–26, 129, 136–37, 161, 175, 177, 179, 188, 202, 215–16; Anne Hutchinson, monitoring after banishment, 218, 220–21, 222, 225–26; Anne Hutchinson’s death, 244; Anne Hutchinson’s “unnatural pregnancy” and, 218, 246; appearance, 4, 7; background, 4, 5; Cambridge relations, 68; children, 74; as chosen by God, 121, 210–11; “city upon a hill,” 7, 71, 103; codification of law and, 129–30; colony’s survival, priority of, 137, 216–17; consistency of character, 137; death, 250; Dyer stillborn child and, 205–7, 246; emigration to America, 5, 7, 71; founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 71–72, 74; as governor of Massachusetts, 4, 5–6, 8, 11, 63, 103–10; grave, 259; Harvard College and, 134; Henry Vane and, 103–10, 220; house, Boston, 2,
73,
74, 170, 259; John Cotton and, 96, 98, 106, 162, 188; journal of, 5, 41, 52, 55, 104, 106, 124, 162, 175, 205–6, 222, 225; land and wealth, 156, 161, 163; Massachusetts Bay Company and, 96–97; political machinations, 9; Roger Williams contrasted with, 211; “Short Story,” 244–48; threats against Rhode Island from, 223–24, 228; view of women, 40–41, 48, 179; Wheelwright controversy and unanimity rule, 9, 11, 106–9, 177; on William Hutchinson, 140; wives, 41

Winthrop, John (younger), 41, 74, 251

Winthrop, Margaret, 39, 41, 74

witchcraft and witch-hunting, 122–23, 240; deformed children and miscarriages as link with intellectual women and, 218–19

Wollaston Heights (Mount Wollaston), Massachusetts, 9, 107, 155, 208, 209, 232, 239; Hutchinson farm, 262

Woman of Ely, 198–99

women: activities banned, xvi, 44–45; American, in public office and positions of power, 243; Anne Hutchinson’s testimony and account of woman’s life and thought, 116–26, 138; anxiety about spiritual well-being and salvation, 45–46; Bible study by, 44; birth defects and miscarriages seen as God’s punishment, 217–19; chairs used only by men, 2; charges against Anne Hutchinson and, 113, 129; childbirth deaths, 41; education, 19–20; disenfranchisement, xvi, 12; fear of, power of, 179, 192–93, 198–99; fertility and sex, in marriage, 147; gender equality, xvi, 192; gender and power as a woman at base of Hutchinson’s persecution, 181–82, 186, 191–92; gender as tactic by Hutchinson, 58–59, 118, 119; “gossipings” and conventicles (religious women’s meetings), 44, 87; infanticide by, 45; inferiority of, 40–41, 48, 92, 114; John Cotton’s view of, 92, 186; literacy, xxi; lives of, unrecorded, 116–17; meetings of, and Anne Hutchinson, 44, 48–49, 107, 110; midwifery and men’s fear of women’s power, 169; model for seventeenth century, 40–41; powerlessness and appeal of John Cotton’s theology of “absolute grace” and “conditional reprobation,” 86–87; prophecy and, 55; public office, barring from, xvi, 12; reading and writing seen as unhealthy for, 41; religious services and, 44–45; rule against speaking at religious services, 64; social identity and status, 41, 46, 87, 113; terms of address, 46; view of, Puritan clergy, 47–48; Winthrop’s persecution of, 216; witchcraft, charges of and, 122–23

Wooll, Thomas, 84

Wright, Edward, 92–93

Yale University, Ezra Stiles Papers, 262

Ziff, Larzer, 100, 155

Zwingli, Huldrych, 20, 25

About the Author

EVE LAPLANTE,
a direct descendant of Hutchinson’s, has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. She has written for
The Atlantic, New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Gourmet,
and
Boston Magazine
. Her previous book,
Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon
, was published to critical acclaim in 1993. Visit the author online at www.evelaplante.com.

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Praise

“[F]ascinating…electric…LaPlante brings [Hutchinson’s trial] alive…. What LaPlante has reconstructed here supplies a welcome new podium for a brave Puritan theologian who wouldn’t hold her tongue.”

—
Christian Science Monitor

“The most full-scale biography of Hutchinson to date, and a readable, useful account of the challenges women faced…in an era when women were expected to be silent. Diligently researched and well-crafted.”

—
Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A new biography well worth reading…Anne Hutchinson is among the most neglected, most important figures in United States history.”

—Nick Gillespie,
Reason
magazine

“[A] well-researched account…LaPlante paints a fascinating portrait…[and] deftly depicts the gritty world of colonial New England.”

—
Booklist

“[Hutchinson’s] crime and her trial are skillfully recounted…[a] timeless story.”

—
Providence Journal

“This book is New England history at its best. But it carries with it a message for today as well. Once again America faces the same question that the Bay Colony faced: liberty versus security. Let’s hope that the lessons of Anne Hutchinson’s banishment are not lost on those entrusted with ensuring that we are both strong and free.”

—Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts

“A discursive and charming exploration of the life and times of Anne Hutchinson—by a descendant. A personal and appreciative tribute.”

—Edwin Gaustad, author (with Leigh E. Schmidt) of
The Religious History of America

“Anne Hutchinson, New England’s foremother and Harvard’s midwife, is here rescued from Puritan obscurity and re-introduced to twenty-first century America. Her passionate, non conformist intelligence makes her the most significant woman in pre-Revolutionary America.”

—Peter J. Gomes, author of
The Good Life

“
American Jezebel
offers a spirited biography of Anne Hutchinson, a stirring figure who pushed the limits of Puritan dissent and paid heavily for it. Hutchinson’s story has often served as an emblem by which to take measure of the public voices of women in American culture, and LaPlante’s rendering suggests how deeply resonant that history remains.”

—Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University

“A vivid account, full of surprising twists and turns. In her richly documented book, Eve LaPlante tells the nearly incredible story of a woman who managed, in a male-dominated, religion-obsessed world, to shape the future of New England and New York.”

—Susan Quinn, biographer of Marie Curie and Karen Horney

“What makes American Jezebel so extraordinary is how LaPlante enables Hutchinson to come alive through her own words…not as a simple saint or sinner, but as a textured human being.”

—Ted Anthony, canada.com

“Fast-paced and elegant…LaPlante’s first-rate biography offers glimpses into the life and teachings of a much-neglected figure in early American religious history.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“A powerful and fascinating book that deserves wide reading.”

—
Boston Globe

“Remarkably successful…traces the vein of an ongoing ambivalence about powerful public women in America…particularly good on the sexual mores of the Puritans….”

—Laura Miller, salon.com

“[A] powerful biography of a woman who refused to still her voice.”

—
Dallas Morning News

“Drawing on a staggering amount of historical detail, twelve-generation descendant Eve LaPlante plots her forebear’s downfall with the vivid immediacy of a novel.”

—
BookPage

“[LaPlante is] the master of biography as thriller. She tells a familiar story with a novelist’s panache…makes her kinswoman’s fate into a riveting drama…an enthralling narrative.”

—
The New York Sun

“To all those teachers around the country who have asked me: what true heroes can I tell my students about? I would reply: tell them about Anne Hutchinson. And read Eve LaPlante’s biography of her to make her and her courage come alive.”

—Howard Zinn, author of
A People’s History of the United States

“
American Jezebel
is a stunning book, exquisitely written, that fills in a crucial piece of American history. A founding mother, Anne Hutchinson exemplifies the best in the American spirit. She’s a woman everyone will want to—and should—know about.”

—Carol Gilligan, author of
In A Different Voice
and
The Birth of Pleasure

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Copyright

AMERICAN JEZEBEL
:
The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the
Puritans
. Copyright © 2004 by Eve LaPlante. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Epub April 2009 ISBN 9780061926952

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