Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous English-woman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed account of her oft-told tale, disentangling what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long. As Winship shows, although the trials of Anne Hutchinson and her allies were used ostensibly to protect Massachusetts' Christan society, they instead nearly tore it apart. His book brings puritan doctrine back into focus, giving us a much closer and more informed look at a society marked by religious intolerance and immoderation, one that still echoes in our own time.

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