Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

ISBN-10: 1481846493
ISBN-13: 9781481846493
Series: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Pages: 48
Language: English
Published: 2012-12-26
Author: Mary Rowlandson

Description

Mary (White) Rowlandson (c. 1637 - January 1711) was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. Years after her release, she wrote a book about her experience, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, which is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in a short amount of time and garnered widespread readership, making it in effect the first American "bestseller." This book shows her to be a dedicated puritan woman, but this could be debated due to the amount of time she had to recollect since her freedom from captivity,and the writing/publishing of this book.