Sudden Punishments.

III. Inherited Nervousness--Fears in Childhood--Theological Precocity.

IV. Woman's Day of Rest--Sabbath Rules and Customs--A Typical Sabbath.

V. Religion and Woman's Foibles--Religious Regulations--Effect on
Dress--Women's Singing in Church--Southern Opinion of Northern
Severity--Effect of Feminine Repression.

VI. Woman's Comfort in Religion--An Intolerant Era--Religious
Gatherings for Women--Formal Meetings with Mrs. Hutchinson--Causes
of Complaint--Meetings of Quaker Women.

VII. Female Rebellion--The Antinomians--Activities of Anne
Hutchinson--Her Doctrines--Her Banishment--Emotional Starvation--Dread
of Heresy--Anne Hutchinson's Death.

VIII. Woman and Witchcraft--Universal Belief in Witchcraft--Signs
of Witchcraft--Causes of the Belief--Lack of Recreation--Origin
of Witchcraft Mania--Echoes from the Trials--Waning of the Mania.

IX. Religion Outside of New England--First Church in Virginia--Southern
Strictness--Woman's Religious Testimony--Religious Sanity--The
Dutch Church--General Conclusions.


CHAPTER II--COLONIAL WOMAN AND EDUCATION

I. Feminine Ignorance--Reasons--The Evidence in Court Records--Dame's