Machine generated contents note: Walking. A Harpy -- Hasty Rose Ring -- After The Plague -- Passage -- Aboard The Truelove 1636 -- Self-sold and Adrift -- A Little Entertainment -- Labor and Delivery -- In The House of Mistress Anne Hutchinson -- Ashore -- This Untamed Place -- Through Daily Labors -- The Hutchinson Debate -- The Trial of Anne Hutchinson November 1637 -- Before Ministers and Magistrates -- A False Wall -- To Break Her -- Anne Hutchinson Banished March 1638 -- Released -- Walk -- Wounded Ally -- A Far Leap -- To The Great River Valley -- Reunion -- Two Positions -- Windsor, 1640 -- The Widower -- Below the Ground -- A Few Things -- House of Captain Cullick Hartford Town 1640 -- My New Life -- Storied Talk -- A Visit -- Life in Windsor 1640-1650 -- Midwife -- Tender Thoughts -- A Birth Confession -- Sequester Meadow -- Bissell's Ferry -- A Lashing -- To the Hutchinson Children -- Accusation 1648 -- Hartford 1650 -- Gathering Ballad -- To Lydea Gilbert -- Uncaged -- A Proposal -- Haloed by Firelight -- Devoted -- Henry Stiles 1651 -- Early Windsor: Henry Stiles -- Demanding Tribute -- Spider Sonnet -- Cleaning Garlic -- Sonnet for Henry -- If This Be Heresy -- Death's Echo -- Evicted -- To Katherine Harrison -- Windsor Pitch Pine Forest 1653 -- Bluebird -- Grinding -- The Birth of Rebecca Harrison 1654 -- Mother Apple -- The First Birth -- Windsor 1654 -- Years Pass -- Injury -- The Widow Bliss -- My Pockets -- Mud-Flat Wells -- Secreted Things -- September 1654 -- Hartford 1654 -- Filled with Fury -- 24 November 1654 -- The Only Salve -- Shadowed -- Counting -- Lydea's Submission -- December 1654 -- Wethersfield 1654-1666 -- On My Own -- Mary Gilbert -- A Liquid Journey -- Verdant -- Sweet Bodied Years -- Abdominal Distemper -- Elegy -- The Reading -- Wethersfield 1666-1668 -- First Blood -- Bee Whisperer -- Damnified -- Thirsted After -- Blinded by Tears -- The Chase -- Body of Thorns -- A Different Way -- 5 May 1668 -- Hartford Jail 1668-1669 -- Unanswerable Questions -- 4 October 1669 -- To Court -- Thomas Bracy's Testimony -- Testimony: Elizabeth Cullick Smith -- Twisted Silence -- Rebecca Smith's Testimony -- Sentenced -- Hartford Prison October 1668-May 1669 -- My Nightmare -- Smelling Spring -- Citizens of Wethersfield -- For John -- Court of Assistants, 20 May 1669 -- Walking.
Summary:
"The stories of two historical women, Lydea Gilbert and Katherine (Kate) Harrison, who lived along the frontier of the Connecticut River in the mid 1600s. They were healers, midwives, farmers and ordinary women who faced the struggles and joys of life in a wild new land. They were women in a puritan culture, women of intuitive genius and healing powers, who lived through times where feminine power and the value of women's lives was suspect and condemned"-- Provided by publisher.
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