John Norton Writes First Biography in America

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john cotton

Learning about other people’s lives… that sounds fun!

John Norton, a hardcore Puritan, has published the first biography in America based on the great Puritan leader John Cotton. Cotton is well-known for his religious influence in New England, turning his back on the banished and outspoken Anne Hutchinson, as well as his banishment of Roger Williams who was first to believe in separating Church and State.

REJOICE!!! There’s such a shortage of religious books and religious people, we were going crazy!! 

We can FINALLY stop reading cooking recipes in our spare time!!

First Woman Poet Published in America

Filed under: 1650 > Books > Massachusetts >

Anne Bradstreet

And she’s not all that bad!

A collection of poems by Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts has been published in a book called The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

Ch-ch-check out a line from one of her poems (below):

“Triumph I shall, o’re Sin, o’re Death, o’re Hell,
And in that hope, I bid you all farewell.”

Wow, we’re shocked Massachusetts let a woman write about, well, anything.

Gurl power!!!