Marilyn Westerkamp - The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost

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Names: Westerkamp, Marilyn J., author.

Title: The passion of Anne Hutchinson : an extraordinary woman,

the Puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost / Marilyn J. Westerkamp.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020046776 (print) | LCCN 2020046777 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780197506905 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780197506929 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Hutchinson, Anne, 15911643. | PuritansMassachusettsBiography. |

WomenMassachusettsBiography. | Social reformersMassachusettsBiography. |

MassachusettsHistoryColonial period, ca. 16001775. |

Freedom of religionMassachusettsHistory17th century. |

MassachusettsBiography.

Classification: LCC F67.H92 W47 2021 (print) | LCC F67.H92 (ebook) |

DDC 974.4/02092 [B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046776

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046777

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197506905.001.0001

Some material in Chapters 2 and 6 first appeared in a book published by Routledge. Copyright 1999 Women and Religion in Early America, 16001850:The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions by Marilyn J. Westerkamp. Reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc.

An earlier, shorter version of Chapter 7 first appeared as Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Engendering Puritan Religious Culture in Old and New England, Pennsylvania History:A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn, 64 (Special Supplemental Issue Summer 1997), 105122. Copyright 1997 The Pennsylvania Historical Association. This material is used by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.

For Cynthia, Claire, and Hugh

who have long lived with

Anne Hutchinson and the Puritans

This book has been at the center of my intellectual world for more years than I can fathom. My reading and my research have occupied me throughout these many years, and the entire structure of the project has been imagined, framed, and reinvented at least three times, benefiting from the developments in the history of gender and cultural studies. Of course, anything pursued over such a long time has been impacted by a significant number of people who have provided instruction, support, labor, and critique.

My research has taken me to a range of libraries and institutions on the East Coast, including the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Massachusetts State Archives, the Boston Public Library, and Harvards Houghton Library, and I am indebted to the librarians and assistants who provided whatever help I needed. Although it is always important to drop into the British Library in London, my work in England was concentrated at the Bodleian Library and Worcester College Library of Oxford University, a veritable treasure trove of early print materials. These travels were supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. My research has also benefited from the time provided by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and University of California Presidents Fellowship in the Humanities. Additionally, over the years I have received many research grants from the University of California, Santa Cruz, that have provided travel funds but also support for research assistants, whose contributions have been invaluable.

I have found the University of California at Santa Cruz to be a personally supportive, generous, and intellectually invigorating home. When I found myself moving into early modern British history, my colleague Buchanan Sharp provided a primer and bibliography of the latest scholarship, which was particularly exciting since religion had begun to appear at the center of that universe. Moreover, as I became increasingly engaged in questions of gender and sexuality, fellow historians Gail Hershatter and Jon Beecher directed me to literatures that had nothing to do with early America or England, and everything to do with the possibilities inherent in gender studies and cultural history. Santa Cruz is an amazing community of scholars who seriously embrace interdisciplinarity with space and forums in which to explore eccentric connections across time and place. For a significant number of years, I worked within a feminist studies writing group, benefiting from the critical reading of Maria Elena Diaz, Dana Frank, Andrea Friedman, Beth Haas, Martha Hodes, Linda Lomperis Cindy Polecritti, and Alice Yang, and, more recently, I have benefited from the critical support of Kate Jones, Greg OMalley, and Carla Freccero.

Pieces of this project have appeared at conferences, and I have always learned from the comments of colleagues. Dee Andrews, Ruth Bloch, Edith Gelles, Nancy Isenberg, Susan Juster, Ned Landsman, Ann M. Little, Mark Noll, Carla Gardina Pestana, Elizabeth Reis, and Robert Scribner have all shown interest in this project, and their ongoing support has been important to my thinking. Dwight Bozeman, Stephen Foster, Brooks Holifield, and Michael Winship, all exceptional intellectual historians of Puritanism, have provided key critical commentary, frequently in dispute, but always sharpening my own understanding of Puritan studies.

Several students have served as research assistants at various points along this journey, and their help has been much appreciated. I am indebted to Jennifer Cullison, Erika Falk, Jolie Katz, and Angela Redding, undergraduates who demonstrated intelligence and dedication as researchers. In the end, a significant portion of the development of this project was formulated in conversations with my graduate students, including Tiffany Wayne, Marta Bruner, Kevin McDonald, and Taylor Kirsch, who worked as excellent research assistants, but also Rebecca Hall, Megan Gudgeirsson, Benjamin Pietrenka, Noel Smyth, Lisa Jackson, and Danielle Kuehn. Living with a project for a long time requires new intellects to enliven, and sometimes destroy, old paths. As always, I am indebted to the staff of Oxford University Press, particularly Ponneelan Moorthy, attentive and relentless, working with me to ensure efficient production, and Cynthia Read, amazing editor who provided extensive advice on the construction of the book, assisting my efforts to enhance clarity and readability.