Colonial days and dames . A GROUP OF EARLY POETESSES. Among the early settlers of the Coloniesthere was, occasionally, a woman of morethan ordinary intelligence, and now andagain a ready writer or a in all the settlements, North andSouth, there was no woman equal in mindand spirit to Anne Hutchinson, whom evenher enemies acknowledged to be a mas-terpiece of womans wit. Enthusiasm, unrestrained by tact orworldly considerations, a strain of head-strongness in her religious fervor, and apower of carrying with her the minds andhearts of her hearers, were apparently theleading c
Colonial days and dames . A GROUP OF EARLY POETESSES. Among the early settlers of the Coloniesthere was, occasionally, a woman of morethan ordinary intelligence, and now andagain a ready writer or a in all the settlements, North andSouth, there was no woman equal in mindand spirit to Anne Hutchinson, whom evenher enemies acknowledged to be a mas-terpiece of womans wit. Enthusiasm, unrestrained by tact orworldly considerations, a strain of head-strongness in her religious fervor, and apower of carrying with her the minds andhearts of her hearers, were apparently theleading characteristics of this devotedyoung woman, the latter trait being per-haps the most difficult for her persecutorsto overlook. From the grim travesty of 99 lOO COLONIAL DAYS AND DAMES. that trial in which Winthrop, Dudley, Endi-cott, and other worthies, who had come tothe New World for freedom of thought andaction, sat in judgment upon one againstwhom the only charge made was that sheexercised this coveted freedom in her l
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