Days_), Alice Brown and Charles Scribner's Sons (_Mercy Warren_), Philip
Alexander Bruce and the Macmillan Company (_Institutional History of
Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_), Anne H. Wharton (_Martha
Washington_), John Spencer Bassett (_Writings of Colonel Byrd_), Alice
Earle Hyde (_Alice Morse Earl's Child Life in Colonial Days_), Geraldine
Brooks and Thomas Y. Crowell Company (_Dames and Daughters of Colonial
Days_). The author wishes to acknowledge his deep indebtedness to the
late Sylvia Brady Holliday, whose untiring investigations of the subject
while a student under him contributed much to this book.

C.H.




CONTENTS


CHAPTER I--COLONIAL WOMAN AND RELIGION

I. The Spirit of Woman--The Suffering of Women--The Era of
Adventure--Privation and Death in the First Colonial
Days--Descriptions by Prince, Bradford, Johnson, etc.--Early
Concord.

II. Woman and Her Religion--Its Unyielding Quality--Its
Repressive Effect on Woman--Wigglesworth's _Day of Doom_--What
It Taught Woman--Necessity of Early Baptism--Edward's _Eternity of
Hell Torment_--_Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God_--Effect
on Womanhood--Personal Devils--Dangers of Earthly Love--God's