San Antonio College Library

What we see for the first time is the many-layered complexity of religious life in early New England, and the importance within it of traditions derived from those of the Old World.

"A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"-- Martha Parker was a gifted young New England woman, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary. Late in 1825 she accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor: Elnathan Gridley, a clergyman headed for the mission field. Tenney's male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence...