This week my teaser for Teaser Tuesday comes from The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. The reason I am reading this is next month (which really isn't all that far away really) is Anya Seton Season at Historical Tapestry - giveaways, reviews and guest posts.
Before starting this I had only read Katherine, which is a fantastic book, and Dragonwyck which I liked too. I suspect that people more familiar with American history would recognise the name Winthrop in association with the Puritans, but this is all new for me.My teaser comes from page 257:
We are but four thousand people yet, like the Israelites, and pressed like them from all sides - Sir Ferdinando Gorges' hirelings and New France on the north, across the sea our persecutors in England; to the south beyond the Dutch a Papist place called Maryland has been established. The west has cannibalistic Mohawks. Beset like this from every quarter, what hope have we but to stand close together in ourselves - with amity?
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Oh! I have this book on my shelf and loved your teaser! I am pretty excited about it, as I loved Seton's Katherine. Great teaser!!
ReplyDeleteI'll look forward to your review on this one! I love novels set in early America!
ReplyDeleteI have this book in my TBR, too (with the exact same cover, by the way :-).
ReplyDelete'The Winthrop Woman' is actually one of my ancestors, so for purely family history reasons my mother has been urging me to read this book for years (she has a lovely old hardcover edition).
I'm hoping to get round to it this summer, at the cottage.
Not for me.
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I love Kathrine and have watched the 1954? I think black and white movie of Dragonwyk which i also love!
ReplyDeleteLike other readers of your blog, I have loved "Katherine" so this was an especially interesting teaser - thank you for sharing
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Great teaser!
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Interesting teaser!
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It's a great book. It was one of my mother's favorites when she was younger, and she was very pleased when I bought a digital copy. She may have been even more pleased to hear (after I had done much research) that we are directly descended from Emmanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop!
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