The Witnesses

by Marcy Heidish and M.W. Waring

Book Overview

Dynamic and compelling novel based on the life of lay minister Anne Hutchinson, religious freedom advocate. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006BRHQS
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 695 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Witnesses

This extraordinary historical novel centers on one of America's bravest heroines, Anne Hutchinson, who fought at great cost for religious freedom in the seventeenth century. Some called her a "Jezebel," some called her a saint, and her followers grew. Hutchinson's community leaders found her to be such a threat, they imprisoned and banished her, but she left Boston unbroken in spirit. Following on the success of her first novel, A Woman Called Moses, Marcy Heidish created another striking and artistic picture of a brave woman in crisis. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Witnesses garnered laudatory reviews. Its author drew praise from The New Yorker Magazine, as a "striking novel...a compelling portrait; from The Los Angeles Times as a "driving narrative...Heidish does dramatic justice to those impure Puritans and thier remarkable critic, Anne Hitchinson, fearless of the passions of flesh and spirit...meticulously documented;" from The Houston Post, "Vastly impressive...Heidish has again uncannily created a real woman out of dryistorical matter;" from The New York Times, "There is nothing ordinary about [Heidish's] creation of this remarkable woman. The novel abounds in literary grace. It employs the voices of the times as though heard this minute." It is a privilege to republish this outstanding novel. F.P. Dolan WitnessesFive Stars