first edition Hardcover
1939 · New York
by Kenyon, Theda
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy, light discoloration to endpapers from contact with jacket flaps, light browning/soiling to fore-edge, minor fading to cloth at top of spine due to slight paper loss in jacket at that point; jacket has a few small edge-tears and very shallow chipping here and there, a little paper loss at top of spine (not affecting text)]. Narrative poem about Anne Hutchinson, credited by some observers as the first American woman to lead the public fight for religious diversity and female equality. Eleanor Roosevelt was a particular admirer of Hutchinson, a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who got in trouble for holding religious meetings in her home, where many fellow colonists (including women) gathered to discuss the Bible. She was outspoken in expressing her dissent from the religious views of the Puritan leaders, and in 1837 she was tried for heresy and subsequently banished from the Colony and excommunicated from the church. Anne, her family, and about 60 of her followers relocated to Rhode Island, and following her husband's death moved to the Dutch colony at New York; she was killed by Mahican Indians in her home in 1643. . (Inventory #: 12919)