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An herbalist-midwife staunchly loyal to Anne Hutchinson during her two heresy trials, Nell Benedict relates the personal, political, and religious difficulties that beset Hutchinson during the 1630's.

Ethan Frome : New England farmer Ethan Frome, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls in love with Mattie Silver, his ailing wife's orphaned cousin, and attempts to free himself from the bonds of small town convention. Summer : A New England girl, contemptuous of and bored by the petty interests of her peers defies the moral strictures of the village to which she has been taken, living with a degenerate group of outlaws and surrendering to clandestine...

The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.