A Measure Of Light: A Novel

A Measure Of Light: A Novel

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With Beth Pownings Trademark Elegance And Insight Into The Hearts And Minds Of Unforgettable Women, A Measure Of Light Brings To Life An Extraordinary Historical Figure.Mary Dyer Is A Seventeenthcentury Puritan Who Flees Persecution In England, Only To Find The Colony Of Massachusetts Bay As Dangerous As The Country She Left Behind. Though She Is The Wife Of A Successful Merchant And Mother To Their Children, She Becomes Stigmatized Following A Birth Gone Terribly Wrong And Is Reviled As A Friend To The Infamous Heretic Anne Hutchinson. Mary Tries To Accept New Englands Harsh Realities, But Is Outraged By The Coldhearted Puritan Magistrates, With Their Doctrinaire Stranglehold On Church And State, Their Subjugation Of Women, Their Wars Against The Natives In The Surrounding Territories And Their Vicious Treatment Of Any Who Challenge Their Rule.Mary Becomes One Of Americas First Quakers. As Both Outcast And Privileged Citizen, Caught Between The Callings Of Faith And The Ambitions Of Her Husband, She Comes To The Realization That She Must Follow Her Convictions In Order To Bring An End To The Brutal Repression Of The Quakers In Massachusetts, For Whom Death By Hanging Is The Ultimate Punishment.From Marys Relationship With Anne Hutchinson To Her Fiery Exchanges With The Colonial Magistrates, A Measure Of Light Is Both A Sensitive Work Of Imagination And Meticulously True To The Historical Record. In This Exceptional Pairing Of Author And Subject, Mary Dyer Receives In The Hands Of Beth Powning Herself A New Englandborn Quakerthe Fullblooded Recognition Too Long Denied A Woman Of Her Moral Stature And Significance In Shaping American History.

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