She breathed life and sympathy into historical figures that are typically seen as caricatures or cardboard cutouts of real people. But she then added layers of facts about the time Elizabeth lived and the larger than life historical figures she knew and created a strong work of historical fiction. If that is all it was, I would say this was an adequate book. Seton took the few facts at hand and built a readable romance novel. These set her apart from the thousands of faceless women who lived her same life. But somehow, in a time when women were definitely "background" and men made history, there are a few incidences in her life that stood out at the time and have survived. In many ways she was a "nobody" and the details of their lives seldom survive. While Elizabeth actually existed, and due to her relationship to John Winthrop whose life was well documented, we know many of the "facts" of her life - her parentage, her move to the new world, her marriages - we don't have the knowledge of the details of her life like we do Elizabeth I or Marie Antoinette. The Winthrop woman tells the story of Elizabeth Winthrop, the daughter-in-law/niece of John Winthrop, a strict Puritan and a founding governor of the Massachusetts Colony in the first half of the 17th Century. I listened to Katherine several years back and became impressed with Ms. I read Green Darkness many years ago and it remains one of my all time favorites, in my favorite genre. American author Anya Seton (1904 -1990), was the author of 10 bestselling historical novels, particularly 'Katherine' still one of the most popular historical novels ever written.Anya Seton's historical fiction seems to age very well. Anya Seton's riveting historical 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. As a response to this almost unmatched courage and vitality, Governor John Winthrop came to refer to this woman in the historical records of the time as his unregenerate niece. Against this background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians and above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Jacket sadly tatty with edge wear, chipping closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket, 2" loss to top of spine, 1" loss to bottom of spine, corners rubbed and bruised, folds rubbed, small 'skinned' patch to top back jacket (removal of old sticky label?), price torn away, no inscriptions, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable, obviously much read, copy for its age.
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