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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Powning, Beth, 1949-     Subjects     Women -- Fiction.     Quaker women -- Fiction.     Quakers -- Persecutions -- Fiction.     Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.     British -- United States -- Fiction.     Massachusetts Bay (Mass.) -- Fiction.     Massachusetts -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Powning, Beth, 1949-       by title:      A measure of light :...       by call number:      FICTION POW     Search the Web     Powning, Beth, 1949-     Women -- Fiction.     Quaker women -- Fiction.     Quakers -- Persecutions -- Fiction.     Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.     British -- United States -- Fiction.     Massachusetts Bay (Mass.) -- Fiction.     Massachusetts -- Fiction.       MARC Display

A measure of light : a novel / Beth Powning. by Powning, Beth, 1949- Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2015. Call #: FICTION POW Subjects Women -- Fiction.   Quaker women -- Fiction.   Quakers -- Persecutions -- Fiction.   Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.   British -- United States -- Fiction.   Massachusetts Bay (Mass.) -- Fiction.   Massachusetts -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780345808479 Description:  323 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England, only to find the colony of Massachusetts Bay as dangerous as the country she left behind. Though she is the wife of a successful merchant and mother to their children, she becomes stigmatized following a birth gone terribly wrong and is reviled as a friend to the infamous heretic Anne Hutchinson. Mary tries to accept New England's harsh realities, but is outraged by the cold-hearted Puritan magistrates, with their doctrinaire stranglehold on church and state, their subjugation of women, their wars against the natives in the surrounding territories and their vicious treatment of any who challenge their rule. Mary becomes one of America's first Quakers. As both outcast and privileged citizen, caught between the callings of faith and the ambitions of her husband, she comes to the realization that she must follow her convictions in order to bring an end to the brutal repression of the Quakers in Massachusetts, for whom death by hanging is the ultimate punishment. Genre:  Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION POW Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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