The Winthrop Woman
Anya Seton
#3588 of 8,085 books · #564 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1959).
Anya Seton's follow-up to Katherine is the story of Elizabeth Winthrop, a real historical figure who married into the family of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and moved to the wild New World in 1631. Seton's riveting novel portrays the fortitude, humiliation, and ultimate triumph of the Winthrop woman, who believed in a concept of happiness transcending that of her own day.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780544222922
- Genre
- Topics
- Colonial AmericaWomanhood and independenceFamily and society
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1959)
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