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The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s America
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the strange American author who has never been out of fashion; since his death in 1864, his stories and novels have resisted the tides of taste, canon...
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Anne Hutchinson banished
Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts as “a woman not fit for our society.”
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop (1558–1649), a lawyer, was one of the Puritan founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the colony’s first governor. Winthrop sailed to Massachusetts in 1630. As the Puritans prepared to create a community in the New World, Winthrop delivered his sermon on “A Modell of Christian Charity,” declaring that “we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” He served as governor several times throughout his twenty years in New England and his journals provide a...
Glossary Term – Person
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) was an English-born Massachusetts Puritan who organized religious meetings for women and challenged the political authority of the clergy. As a result, Hutchinson was tried in 1637 for “traducing the ministers” of the church. John Winthrop, the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, served as both prosecutor and judge in her trial. Hutchinson was declared “a woman not fit for our society” and excommunicated from the church. Banished from Massachusetts, Hutchinson...