![]() ![]() Convinced that she could distinguish those who were saved from those who were foredoomed, she stalked out of one Boston church rather than hear what she considered false doctrine. ![]() Anne, the second of 15 children, left England rather than bend to a church she considered corrupt. LaPlante recapitulates Hutchinson's childhood in England, where her father capitulated to the power of the Anglican hierarchy. Her real offenses, the author argues, consisted of building up a power base from which she challenged the colony's established church and government. LaPlante ( Seized, 1993) begins with Hutchinson's trial before the Massachusetts General Court. ![]() An attempt to place Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) as an early feminist, after being expelled from Massachusetts Bay colony in 1638 on charges of heresy and sedition. ![]()
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