Mary Rowlandson
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1637 – 1711
Who was Mary Rowlandson?
Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published. This text is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and garnered readership both in the New England colonies and in England, leading it to be considered by some the first American "bestseller."
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- Born
- 1637
Somerset - Also known as
- Mary White Rowlandson
- Spouses
- Samuel Talcott
- Joseph Rowlandson
(1656 - )
- Died
- Jan 5, 1711
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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on July 23, 2013
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