THE WINTHROP WOMAN

by Anya Seton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 9, 1957

The life of Elizabeth Winthrop, niece (and for a time, daughter-in-law) of John Winthrop, inflexible Governor of the Bay Colony, is told as a story rooted in fact, authentic in historical, regional and period background and at the same time conveys the deeply emotional character and problems of her three marriages. Her life, as it developed its strangely contradictory pattern, with its loves, its hates, its tragedies, its drama makes the years of the founding of New England come alive, no more the colorless, staid, unimpassioned picture our early school histories have made it. All of the key people are here in a panorama which conveys the early struggle for survival in Greenwich, then Dutch territory. An absorbing story in which the happenings grow out of the characters --there is much here that will be wholly new to most readers. A novel of permanent worth.

Pub Date: Jan. 9, 1957

ISBN: 155652644X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1957

Categories: FICTION