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Mary Rowlandson

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born

Somersetshire, England, The United Kingdom

died

January 05, 1711

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs

influences

James Fenimore Cooper

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Mrs. Mary White Rowlandson was a Puritan resident of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was captured by Native Americans and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed in 1676. Her later memoir of these events became the first American best-seller, going through four editions in one year.

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Books by Mary Rowlandson

Average rating: 2.85 · 572 ratings · 44 reviews · 37 distinct works

	Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 2.81 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 1682 — 61 editions	My rating:
	The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents by Mary Rowlandson (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Editor) 2.62 avg rating — 115 ratings	My rating:
	Captured by Indians: The True Story of Mary Rowlandson and Others 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Sovereignty and Goodness of God & Our Hearts Fell to the Ground & Victors and Vanquished & Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 2e by Mary Rowlandson, Stuart B. Schwartz, Olaudah Equiano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Soveraignty & Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sovereignty and Goodness of God & Attitudes Towards Sex in Antebellum America & Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era & Great Awakening & Democracy in America & Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War 2e by Mary Rowlandson, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Woody Holton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Captain Sword and Captain Pen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Sovereignty & the Goodness of God and Benjamin & William Franklin and Narrative: Life of Frederick Douglass 2e by Mary Rowlandson, Frederick Douglass, Sheila L. Skemp 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola (Editor / Contributor), Mary Jemison (Contributor), Sarah F. Wakefield (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives by Horace Kephart (Editor), Mary Rowlandson, James Smith (Contributor) 2.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1915 — 7 editions	My rating: