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New England discovery, a personal view, edited by Nancy Hale

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New England discovery, a personal view, edited by Nancy Hale
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Bibliography: page 549
Illustrations
illustrationsplatesportraits
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
New England discovery
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1394699
Responsibility statement
edited by Nancy Hale
Sub title
a personal view
Summary
New England Discovery is the result of a distinguished novelist and short story writer's own, very personal search for the truth behind the haunting myth that is New England tradition. It is a combination of facts and fiction, a determined effort to discover that matchless beld of staunchness, brains, independence, beauty and style that is New England as exmeplified in its most representative writing. -- From dust jacket
Table Of Contents
1620 - 1643 :, True relation of the most prosperous voyage, James Rosier, The landing at Plymouth, William Bradford, Merrymount, John Lothrop Motley, New England's plantation 1630, Francis Higginson, Sermon aboard the Arabella, John Winthrop, Journal, Richard Mather, Anne Hutchinson's exile, Thomas Welde, Everyday life in Massachusetts Bay Colony, George Dow, Repentant sinners and their ministers, Rev. Thomas Hooker, Minister Hooker's Christianity, Timothy Dwight, The Bay Psalm book, Richard Mather, Concerning the singers, John Cotton, Dinner at the Winthrops, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, New England's first fruits, Anonymous1646 - 1662 :, The covenant of grace, Thomas Shepard, The simple cobbler of Aggawam in America, Nathaniel Ward, The clear sun-shine of the gospel breaking forth upon the Indians, Rev. John Eliot, The Indians in New England, Daniel Gookin, Grandfather's chair, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The separation of Roger Williams, Nathaniel Moreton, The day of doom, Michael Wigglesworth, Uncle Tracy's Thanksgiving, Traditional1665 -1688 :, Last will and testament, Andrew Hodges, Fast Day and Thanksgiving Proclaimations, Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, An essay for the recording of illustrious providences, Increase Mather, A love letter to her husband, Anne Bradstreet, Upon wedlock, and death of children, Rev. Edward Taylor, A firsthand account of captivity, Mary Rowlandson, The death of King Philip, Thomas Church, Indian warfare in New Hampshire, Jeremy Belknap, The New England primer, Anonymous, legie on the death of Thomas Shepard, Urian Oakes, The regicides in New England, Thomas Hutchinson, Diary, Cotton Mather1689 - 1730 :, The revolt against Sir Edmund Andros, Nathaniel Byfield, The courting of Madam Winthrop, Samuel Sewall, A sermon by Cotton Mather -- The examination of Sarah Good -- A letter on witches' "puppets" -- Testimony against Bridget Bishop -- On the place of execution -- Confession of William Barker, Court trials on witchcraft, Magnalia Christi Americana, Cotton Mather, The redeemed captive returned to Zion, Rev. John Williams, Journey from Boston to New York, Sarah Kemble Knight, The big snow of 1717, Cotton Mather, Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Lovewell's fight, Anonymous, The Puritan state and Puritan society, Perry Miller1737 - 1770 :, A narrative of surprising conversions, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, A witch story of olden time, Francis Chase, The ballad of the French fleet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, On the righteousness of rebellion, Jonathan Mayhew, Considerations on behalf of the colonists, James Otis, James Adams' graduation from Harvard, Catherine Drinker Bowen, The other Adams, Catherine Drinker Bowen, The snare broken, Jonathan Mayhew, The Boston massacre, The town of Boston committee, The future glory of America, Jonathan Trumbull1773 - 1775 :, The Boston Tea Party, John Andrews, Recollections, George Hewes, The rallying song of the tea party, Traditional, Poem by a slave, Phyllis Wheatley Peters, Boston beleagured and help sent, Peter Force, Free America, Dr. Joseph Warren, Paul Revere's own account of his ride, Battle of Lexington, George Bancroft, On Lexington, John Adams, A pardon to the Lexington Rebels, General Gage, Diary of an American soldier, Simeon Lyman1775 - 1798 :, Bunker Hill, Amos Farnsworth, Tory views of the American soldiers, Benjamin Thompson, The capture of Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen, The ballad of Nathan Hale, Traditional, Boston evacuated, Timothy Newell, John Adams and Abigail Adams, John Adams, A New England minister on slavery, Samuel Hopkins, Concerning Benedict Arnold, General Nathanael Greene, The Yorktown surrender, James Thacher, President Stiles of Yale, Abiel Holmes1798 - 1812 :, Advice to the privileged orders, Joel Barlow, A New England frolic, John Neal, An old house in Boston, Edmund Quincy, Sketches of a New England village, Eliza Buckminster Lee, A new language proposed, William Smith Shaw, The capture of the Guerriere, Anonymous, The Federalists, Henry Adams, The life of Oliver Hazard Perry, John M. Niles1812 - 1824 :, The Adams - Jefferson letters, Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant, Charge to a Grand Jury on slavery, Joseph Story, The moral argument against Calvanism, William Ellery Channing, Webster at Bunker Hill, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The frog catcher, Henry J. Finn, An evening in New England, Lydia Maria Child, An address, Edward Everett, Edward Everett in 1820, John Quincy Adams, Recollections of Everett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Boston lecture - its origin and evolution, Samuel Gardner Drake1824 -1841 :, The association man, William Channing, Keynote of abolition, William Lloyd Garrison, A New England boyhood, Edward Everett Hale, Nature ; The rhodora ; The Concord hymn ; Monadnoc, Ralph Waldo Emerson, From his journal ; Conscience ; Independence ; A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau, Speech on abolition and freedom of the press, Wendell Phillips, Background for "The wreck of the Hesperus", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller's conversations, Thomas Higginson, The well bred boy, T. H. Carter, A temperance manifesto, J. W. Goodrich, Brook farm, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sonnets, Bronson Alcott, The transient and the permanent in Christianity, Rev. Theodore Parker1841 - 1854 :, Sonnet to Emerson, Ellen Hooper, Questionings, Frederic Hedge, The Lowell mills, Lucy Larcom, Deacon Giles's distillery, George Cheever, Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Richard Edney and the Governor's family --, Sylvester Judd, Slavery and secession, Daniel Webster, Thanksgiving, Harriet Beecher Stowe1854 - 1862 :, An autobiography, Lyman Beecher, Skipper Ireson's ride, John Greenleaf Whittier, The riven oak - John Brown, Daniel Ricketson, Literary friends and acquaintances, William Dean Howells, The autocrat and the Brahmin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Take the loan, Edward Everett Hale, Lincoln in wartime, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Civil War diary, Charles E. Davis1862 - 1885 :, A hospital sketch, Louisa May Alcott, The genesis of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", Julia Ward Howe, A farewell to Agassiz, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The lady who put salt in her coffee, Lucretia P. Hale, Story of a bad boy, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Among the Isles of Shoals, Celia Thaxter, Persons and places, George Santayana, Talks on art, William Morris Hunt, An international episode, Henry James, The rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells1885 - 1914 :, The town poor, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. Jack Gardner?, F. Marion Crawford, With the first arbutus, Emily Dickinson, Wreck of the S. S. Portland, For those in peril on the sea, Rudyard Kipling, President Eliot of Harvard, Mark A. Dewolfe Howe, How to make Jonny-cake, Thomas Robinson Hazard, On Louis Agassiz, William James1914 - :, The late George Apley, John P. Marquand, Sacco and Vanzetti, Edna St. Vincent Millay, The need of being versed in country things, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Atavism, Elinor Wylie, The Boston Evening Transcript, T. S. Eliot, Cambridge ladies, E. E. Cummings, Salt Water Farm, E. B. White, Hurricane, John Winterich, The proper Bostonians, Cleveland Amory, Town report : 1942, Malcolm Cowley, Waking in the blue, Robert Lowell, New England industry, John F. Kennedy, Homage to New England, David McCord
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