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by Mary Rowlandson

Mary White Rowlandson (c. 1637 - January 1711) was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War. After her release, she wrote a book about her experience, "The Captivity and Deliverance of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, of Lancaster, Who Was Taken by the French and Indians," considered a seminal work in the American literary genre of captivity narratives.

Genres: Fiction

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1907

About the author

1635 -1711
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.

Reviews

[Emma Berg · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Weavers is your typical 1900s adventure story: protagonist leaves home for Egypt, experiences culture shock, spreads the word of Christianity, returns home. However, within the folds of the stereotype are some plot twists, though my favorite was that the main love interest was a woman in her 30s who took the small time politics of her home town into her own hands. She uses the power she accrues to suit the betterment of the town, not simply hoarding it for herself. The writing is good, but the plot twists are predictable. The characters are, by far, the best part of the book, and hold the cobweb thin plot together.

[L.]

Quakers in Egypt. And why not? There might be Quakers in Kazakstan for all I know, but that's another story. Was surprised there was a flirtation with drug addiction in this old book. Wasn't expecting that, so kudos to the author for stepping outside the normal bounds of early 1900's.