A Measure of Light
Knopf Canada, 2015
Here are the books and websites I used to research “A Measure of Light”:
Re Mary Dyer:
Manuscript biography of Mary Dyer by Johan Winsser, unpublished
Mary Dyer, Ruth Talbot Plimpton, Brandon Publishing, 1994
Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, Horatio Rogers, General Books, compiled, original pub. date various 17th c.
http://www.dyerfarm.com/index.html
Re England:
BOOKS
A Royal Passion, The Turbulent Marriag of King Charles I of Endland and Henrietta Maria of France, Katie Whitaker, W. W. Norton and Co., 2010
England in the 17th Century, Maurice Ashley, Penguin Books, 1952
English Costume of the Seventeenth Century, Iris Brooke, A & C Black, 1934
English Society, 1580-1680, Keith Wrightson, Rutgers University Press, 1995
English Women’s Voices, 1540-1700, ed. Charlotte F. Otten, Florida International University Press, 1992
Fire from Heaven, Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century, David Underdown, Fontana Press, 1993
Forgotten Children: Parent-child Relations from 1500 to 1900, Linda A. Pollock, Cambridge University Press, 1983
In a Free Republic, Life in Cromwell’s England, Alison Plowden, Sutton Publishing, 2006
John Evelyn’s Diary, 1620-1706, ed. Philip Francis, The Folio Society, London, 1963
Stuart England, ed. Blair Worden, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1986
The English Housewife, by Gervase Markham, ed. Michael R. Best, McGill-Queen’s University Press, first publication 1615, this edition 2008
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1914
The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London, Thomas Dekker 1606, ed. H. F. B. Brett-Smith, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922
The World Turned Upside Down, Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Christopher Hill, Peregrine Books, 1988
This War Without an Enemy, A History of the English Civil Wars, Richard Ollard, Hodder and Stoughton, 1976
Women in England, 1500-1760, A Social History, Anne Laurence, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995
WEBSITES (selected)
http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/
http://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec.html
http://www.littlewoodham.org.uk/
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/folk-museums-uk.aspx
http://www.localhistories.org/everyday.html
http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17395/707/3
http://www.olivercromwell.org/faqs4.htm
http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/puritans.html
Re New England and Puritans:
BOOKS
American Jezebel, The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, Eve LaPlante, HarperSanFrancisco, 2004
American Literature Survey, Colonial and Federal to 1800, ed. Milton R. Stern and Seymour L. Gross, The Viking Press, 1962
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, William Cronon, Hill and Wang, 1983
Child Life in Colonial Times, Alice Morse Earle, Dover Publications, 2009, originally pub. 1899
Documentary History of Rhode Island, Howard M. Chapin, Preston and Rounds Co, 1919
Early American Writing, ed. Giles Gunn,Penguin Books, 1994
Early Homesteads of Pomfret and Hampton, Susan J. Griggs, Susan Jewett Griggs (self-pub), 1950
Everyday Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, George Francis Dow, The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, 1935
Fissures in the Rock, New England in the Seventeenth Century, Richard Archer, University Press of New England, 2001
Home Life in Colonial Days, Alice Morse Earle, Jonathan Davis Publishers, Inc., 1975, original publication 1898
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life, James Deetz, Anchor Books Doubleday, 1977
John Josselyn, Colonial Traveller, ed. Paul Lindholdt, University Press of New England, 1988, (original pub 1674)
Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims, David Lindsay, Thomas Dunne Books, 2002
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, William Bradford, intro. Francis Murphy, The Modern Library, 1981
Pequot Plantation: The Story of an Early Colonial Settlement, Richard Radune, Research in Time Publication, 2005
Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home, Susan Hardman Moore, Yale University Press, 2007
Puritanism and the Wilderness, Peter N. Carroll, Columbia University Press,1969
Saints and Strangers, New England in British North America, Joseph A Conforti, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, David D. Hall, ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968
Slumps, Grunts and Snickerdoodles, Lila Perl, Clarion Books, 1975
The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, ed., introduction and notes David D Hall, Wesleyan University Press, 1968
The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822, Annie Haven Thwing, Marshall Jones Company, 1920
The American Record: Images of the Nation’s Past, ed. William Graebner and Leonard Richards, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982
The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America, John C. Miller, Dell Publishing, 1966
The Healer’s Calling, Women and Medicine in Early New England, Rebecca S. Tannenbaum, Cornell University Press, 2002
The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649, ed. Dunn and Yeandle, Belknap Harvard, 1996
The New England Primer, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1962
The New England Puritans, ed. Sydney V. James, Harper and Row, 1968
The Penguin History of the United States of America, Hugh Brogan, Penguin Books, NY, 1985
The Puritan Dilemma, The Story of John Winthrop, Edmund S. Morgan, Little, Brown, and Co., 1958
The Puritan Family, Edmund S. Morgan, Harper and Row, 1966
The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, Anchor Books, 2000
Women in the Making of America, H. Addington Bruce, Little Brown and Co., 1912
Women’s Life in Colonial Days, Carl Holliday, General Books P.O.D., 1st printing 1922
WEBSITES (Selected)
http://archive.org/stream/baypsalmbookbein00eame#page/n39/mode/2up
http://www.oldmapsne.com/item.php?item_id=7325&page=129
http://www.hallvworthington.com/Persecutions/Part-2.html
http://www.iboston.org/rg/backbayImap.htm
Re Sinnie:
Shetland Life Under Earl Patrick, Gordon Donaldson, Oliver and Boyd, 1958
www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk
Re Quakers:
BOOKS
A Call from Death to Life, Marmaduke Stephenson, 1659
Daughters of Light, Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775, Rebecca Larson, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1995
Narrative of the Martyrdom, at Boston: of William Robinson, Marmaduke Stevenson (sic), Mary Dyer, and William Leddra, in the Year 1659, Taken from Besse’s account, 1841, reprint Kessinger Publishing
New England Judged, by the Spirit of the Lord, George Bishop, General Books, original pub date 1703
Night Journeys, The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture, Carl Gerona, University of Virginia Press, 2004
Quakerism, A Study Guide on the Religious Society of Friends, Leonard S. Kenworthy, Quaker Publications, Kennett Square, 1981
Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts, Carla Gardina Pestana, Cambridge University Press, 1991
Spiritual Formation, Henri Nouwen, Harper One, 2010
The Journal of George Fox, ed. Rufus Jones, Friends United Press, 1976
The Beginnings of Quakerism, William C. Braithwaite, Macmillan and Co., 1923
The Birthplace of Quakerism, A Handbook for the 1652 Country, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, The Church Army Press, 1952
The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1957
The Quakers in the American Colonies, Rufus Jones, The Norton Library, 1966
The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism, Howard H. Brinton, Pendle Hill Publications, 1973
The Quaker Reader, Selected and introduced by Jessamyn West, The Viking Press, NY, 1962
The Quakers in America, Thomas D. Hamm, Columbia University Press, 2003
WEBSITES (SELECTED)
http://archive.org/stream/collectionofsuff01bess#page/90/mode/1up
Other:
The Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford University Press, 1977
The True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes 1657, Richard Ligon, Edited by J. Edward Hutson, The Barbados National Trust, 2000