The epic story of one family's flight from England and the life they forged amongst the Indians in America
Rebecca Fraser is a writer and broadcaster whose work includes a biography of Charlotte Bronte which examines her life in the context of contemporary attitudes to women. President of the Bronte Society for many years, she wrote the introductions to the Everyman editions of Shirley and The Professor and is a contributor to the BBC History website. Her most recent book, A People's History of Britain, is a highly readable account of British history. It has been described as 'an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years.'
Captivating, scholarly and addictively readable… Rebecca Fraser has
the rare gift of being able to marshal and communicate a
mountainous quantity of often original research in such a deft and
elegant manner that it never becomes indigestible or irrelevant.
[...] When a sidestep outside her rigorous chronological account is
required, she executes it nimbly, without breaking her stride. If
she reaches a period of scanty evidence, she admits it, and her
suggestions carry the conviction of expertise. Everything is rooted
in provable fact, much of it new
*Financial Times*
Rebecca Fraser tells this familiar story with wonderful immediacy;
the Winslows come across not as strange characters from the distant
past, but as real people with passions and anxieties familiar to us
all
*The Times*
It is engagingly written and often compelling. There is an eye for
memorable detail… The later account of “King Philip’s war” is both
graphic and gripping… The author is a careful researcher, fair and
level-headed. She is also an excellent painter of characters; in
judging them, she looks as their deeds with contemporary mores in
mind… Even if the Mayflower shelf is a crowded one, this is a book
that deserves its place on it
*The Economist*
[Fraser] has threaded the important historiographical innovations
seamlessly into her text, paying more attention than hitherto to
the experiences of early colonial women, and drawing on the lessons
of ethno-history in her portrayal of Indian tribes... A brilliant
combination of synthesis and original research arriving in good
time for the celebration of the quincentenary of the Mayflower
*The Spectator*
Fascinating… Rebecca Fraser commands a sprawling canvas, beginning
in 1595 with the birth of Edward Winslow and ending in 1704 with
the death of Peregrine White… Edward Winslow’s excitement at
arriving in Leiden, with its free-thinking university, is vividly
captured. So, too, are the perils of the Mayflower’s voyage… There
is also a rich sense of the enormous possibilities offered by the
New World… This is a thrilling story, admirably told
*Tablet*
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