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Abstract: Why could Puritan women read but hardly any could write even her name? The Massachusetts Bay Colony is justly famous for founding Harvard, the first American university, and for passing the first laws requiring universal literacy and the establishment of schools only a few years after settling Boston in 1630. But girls were only expected to be able to read. If seventeenth-century boys went to school, who taught the girls and what did they learn? |
About the latest Book - in the author's own wordsIn my latest novel, At the Concord of the Rivers, I explore seventeenth-century New England and the town of Concord, Massachusetts in a story of the Puritans and the remnant Native Americans of Nashoba Indian Village. In a time before now I lived in Concord and was captivated by the sense of history that pervades this special town and its three rivers. My imagination sparked and eventually a determination grew to write a novel about its early years. The story is told from the point of view of history graduate student, Abigail, who abruptly finds herself back in the period she has been studying. I used her time travel as a device to envision Puritan life in 1692 through modern eyes. A central theme of the plot is the relationship between Abigail and half-Indian Paul, both of whom are caught between two cultures. |
