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Anne Hutchinson has long been seen as a strong religious dissenter who paved the way for religious freedom in the strictly Puritan environment of New England. Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Anne Hutchinson asserts that she was simply a loving wife and mother whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued to be a radical religious movement. Since this alleged religious movement was led by a woman, it was quickly dealt with by the Puritan …

…New York: Harper and Row, 1988. 195 pps. Hawke gives a startling contrast between our everyday lives and those of people in the Seventeenth Century. Holliday, Carl. Woman's Life in Colonial Days. Boston: Cornhill Publishing Company, 1992. 319 pps. Holliday uses many writings from the colonial period to portray what a woman's life was like in that era. The NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1985. This is the NIV Bible with concordance and verse commentary, also cross-references