Summary: The Uncommon Life Of Anne Hutchinson

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The Uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

The HarperCollins publishers in New York published American Jezebel written by Eve LaPlante in 2004. Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six year old pregnant midwife living in early Puritan Massachusetts, stood in court in front of forty male judges. Hutchinson was charged with heresy and sedition. Hutchinson exerted significant political power in a time when woman could not even hold public office, vote or teach outside of their home. Women were practically stripped of all rights and were invisible in the public eyes. Unlike the other women, Hutchinson was eventually able to surpass the gender limits of early colonial America. Hutchinson and her husband William Hutchinson

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