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X-WR-CALDESC:American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson\, the W
 oman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve\nLaPlante (312 pages)\n\nAnne Hutchins
 on\, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth chi
 ld\, stood before forty male judges\nof the Massachusetts General Court\, 
 charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote\, ho
 ld\npublic office\, or teach outside the home\, the charismatic Hutchinson
  wielded remarkable political power. Her\nunconventional ideas had attract
 ed a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson d
 efended herself\nbrilliantly\, but the judges\, faced with a perceived thr
 eat to public order\, banished her for behaving in a manner 'not\ncomely f
 or [her] sex.'\nUntil now\, Hutchinson has been a polarizing figure in Ame
 rican history and letters\, attracting either disdain or exaltation.\nNath
 aniel Hawthorne\, who was haunted by the 'sainted' Hutchinson\, used her a
 s a model for Hester Prynne in The\nScarlet Letter. Much of the praise for
  her\, however\, is muted by a wish to domesticate the heroine: the bronze
  statue of\nHutchinson at the Massachusetts State House depicts a prayerfu
 l mother -- eyes raised to heaven\, a child at her side --\nrather than a 
 woman of power standing alone before humanity and God. Her detractors\, st
 arting with her neighbor John\nWinthrop\, first governor of Massachusetts\
 , referred to her as 'the instrument of Satan\,' the new Eve\, the 'distur
 ber of\nIsrael\,' a witch\, 'more bold than a man\,' and Jezebel -- the an
 cient Israeli queen who\, on account of her tremendous\npolitical power\, 
 was 'the most evil woman' in the Bible.\nWritten by one of Hutchinson's di
 rect descendants\, American Jezebel brings both balance and perspective to
 \nHutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its 
 complexity\, presenting her not as a religious fanatic\, a\ncardboard femi
 nist\, or a raging crank-as some have portrayed her-but as a flesh-and-blo
 od wife\, mother\, theologian\, and\npolitical leader. Opening in a coloni
 al courtroom\, American Jezebel moves back in time to Hutchinson's childho
 od in\nElizabethan England\, exploring intimate details of her marriage an
 d family life. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion\nfrom Massachusett
 s\, after which her judges\, still threatened by her challenges\, promptly
  built Harvard College to enforce\nreligious and social orthodoxies -- mak
 ing her midwife to the nation's first college. In exile\, she settled Rhod
 e Island\n(which later merged with Roger Williams's Providence Plantation)
 \, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an\nAmerican colony.\nThe seed
 s of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in th
 e story of this one woman's\ncourageous life. American Jezebel illuminates
  the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom\, equal rights\, 
 and\nfree speech\, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements
  are astonishing by the standards of any era.
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DESCRIPTION:American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson\, the Wo
 man Who Defied the Puritans by Eve\nLaPlante (312 pages)\n\nAnne Hutchinso
 n\, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth chil
 d\, stood before forty male judges\nof the Massachusetts General Court\, c
 harged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote\, hol
 d\npublic office\, or teach outside the home\, the charismatic Hutchinson 
 wielded remarkable political power. Her\nunconventional ideas had attracte
 d a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson de
 fended herself\nbrilliantly\, but the judges\, faced with a perceived thre
 at to public order\, banished her for behaving in a manner 'not\ncomely fo
 r [her] sex.'\nUntil now\, Hutchinson has been a polarizing figure in Amer
 ican history and letters\, attracting either disdain or exaltation.\nNatha
 niel Hawthorne\, who was haunted by the 'sainted' Hutchinson\, used her as
  a model for Hester Prynne in The\nScarlet Letter. Much of the praise for 
 her\, however\, is muted by a wish to domesticate the heroine: the bronze 
 statue of\nHutchinson at the Massachusetts State House depicts a prayerful
  mother -- eyes raised to heaven\, a child at her side --\nrather than a w
 oman of power standing alone before humanity and God. Her detractors\, sta
 rting with her neighbor John\nWinthrop\, first governor of Massachusetts\,
  referred to her as 'the instrument of Satan\,' the new Eve\, the 'disturb
 er of\nIsrael\,' a witch\, 'more bold than a man\,' and Jezebel -- the anc
 ient Israeli queen who\, on account of her tremendous\npolitical power\, w
 as 'the most evil woman' in the Bible.\nWritten by one of Hutchinson's dir
 ect descendants\, American Jezebel brings both balance and perspective to
 \nHutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its 
 complexity\, presenting her not as a religious fanatic\, a\ncardboard femi
 nist\, or a raging crank-as some have portrayed her-but as a flesh-and-blo
 od wife\, mother\, theologian\, and\npolitical leader. Opening in a coloni
 al courtroom\, American Jezebel moves back in time to Hutchinson's childho
 od in\nElizabethan England\, exploring intimate details of her marriage an
 d family life. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion\nfrom Massachusett
 s\, after which her judges\, still threatened by her challenges\, promptly
  built Harvard College to enforce\nreligious and social orthodoxies -- mak
 ing her midwife to the nation's first college. In exile\, she settled Rhod
 e Island\n(which later merged with Roger Williams's Providence Plantation)
 \, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an\nAmerican colony.\nThe seed
 s of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in th
 e story of this one woman's\ncourageous life. American Jezebel illuminates
  the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom\, equal rights\, 
 and\nfree speech\, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements
  are astonishing by the standards of any era.
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne H
 utchinson\, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
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