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Obras de Mary Rowlandson

Associated Works

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Contribuinte, algumas edições255 cópias
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics) (1998) — Contribuinte — 155 cópias
Colonial American Travel Narratives (Penguin Classics) (1994) — Autor, algumas edições122 cópias
Classic American Autobiographies (1992) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuinte — 68 cópias
American Captivity Narratives (New Riverside Editions) (2000) — Contribuinte — 61 cópias
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contribuinte — 56 cópias
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contribuinte, algumas edições25 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
White, Mary
Rowlandson, Mary White
Data de nascimento
c. 1635
Data de falecimento
1711-01-05
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
England (birth)
USA
Local de nascimento
Somersetshire, England
Local de falecimento
Massachusetts Bay Colony, USA
Locais de residência
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA
Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ocupação
memoirist
colonist
Relacionamentos
Rowlandson, Joseph (husband)
Talcott, Samuel (husband)
White, John (father)
Pequena biografia
Mary Rowlandson, née White, was born in Somerset, England and emigrated as a child with her family to the American colonies before 1650. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, first in Salem and then in 1653, moved to the frontier village of Lancaster. In 1656, she married Joseph Rowlandson, who became a Puritan minister; the couple had four children before 1669. On February 10, 1675, during King Philip's War, the settlement was attacked by native Americans, who killed 13 people and took at least 24 captive, including Mary Rowlandson and her three children, Joseph, Mary, and Sarah. Sarah, the youngest, age 6, died a week later. Mary and her surviving children were forced to accompany their captors on a grueling journey, suffering great hardships, through the wilderness for nearly three months. They were finally ransomed in May 1676. After her first husband died, Mary moved to Boston, where she is believed to have written her memoir, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, published in 1682 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in London. The book quickly became a bestseller -- perhaps the first in American history -- and selections from it have been included in countless anthologies of American literature. It also served as a source of information for 18th and 19th-century writers such as James Fenimore Cooper.

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Look, I appreciate no-one likes the puritans, and Mary would've been better off leaving these out if she was working to create an enduring work of literature. But she wasn't aiming to be Cervantes. This book is as much interesting for its historical context as for its narrative style. What Mrs. Rowlandson's narrative tells us is aided by her point of view, even if it is at times disagreeable, because we gain valuable insight into the views of the Puritans as well as telling insights into life amongst the natives. It makes the work more complex, as we view history through a certain tint, don't it?… (mais)
 
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therebelprince | outras 12 resenhas | Oct 24, 2023 |
On February 10th 1675* "came the Indians with great number upon Lancaster."

Lancaster, MA, at 30 miles West of Boston, was a frontier town and vulnerable during King Phillip's War. There had been some anticipation of attack as the army had left the area. Mary Rowlandson, her three children, her sisters and their families and other neighbors were burned out of their garrison into a shower of bullets. 24 were taken prisoner and nearly as many killed, all were close family members or neighbors. Mary witnessed all of this.

Mary's account of her captivity is brief, poignant and rich in detail. She describes her captivity in "removes", as she physically moves farther away from her home, but also spiritually from her previous life. Her children have been taken from her, and all familiar faces, she is told her husband thinks her dead. Mary sees herself undergoing a test from God, and fierce and unapologetic she goes about doing surviving. She learns to forage for food, sews clothing for the Indians and is paid for it, she begs food - something for which she is beaten - and takes it. She is grateful and acknowledges small kindnesses from Native Americans, but she is constantly on defense. She is on the whole contemptuous and fearful of her captors, relying on scripture to escape from the reality she's living.

There is little exterior information in Mary's narrative, but there is much that can be learned about the Indians of that period. A century of plagues reduced their populations, destroyed whole villages and family groups. They experienced greater losses than Europe during the black death and had colonial invasion on top of it. The survivors banded together in fragile alliances, and were finding themselves pushed further and further back by European settlement. Boundaries were drawn, peaces agreed to, and then ignored by more white settlers. Mary Rowlandson herself witnesses the movement of whole settlements and the burning of what was left behind to hamper the English, and she marvels at and can attribute only to God the survival of these (I would say people, but she didn't see them as such) in the face of their crops being constantly ruined by the English. Native Americans themselves were fighting to survive and were slowly losing.

Mary's narrative was bestseller in the 17th century, and continues to fascinate. It is a moving and important historical text.

*1676 if you listen to Pope Gregory, and everyone but the Puritans do.

From: 'Colonial American Travel Narratives'
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ManWithAnAgenda | outras 12 resenhas | Feb 18, 2019 |
In 1675 Mary Rowlandson, wife of a minister, was taken by Indians during King Philip's War. This is written by Mary and reads like a witness to the glory of God. (which is ok but not what I expected) Although I liked it because of its historical value, I would rather have had more detail of what her life was like while she was held. There is some but she survived I think by prayer and her beliefs and she wanted to emphasize this.
 
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MCDyson | outras 12 resenhas | Mar 26, 2016 |

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