Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson) (Everyman) - Softcover

Hutchinson, Lucy

 
9780460874915: Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson: With a Fragment of Autobiography (of the Life of Lucy Hutchinson) (Everyman)

Synopsis

With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Hutchinson scholarship in an introduction, and also includes a text summary, bibliography, selected criticism and chronology of Hutchinson's life and times. Lucy Hutchinson (b. 1620) was the wife of John Hutchinson (1615-64). She wrote "Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson" (first published 1806) after his death to preserve his memory for her children. Hutchionson held Nottingham for Parliament as governor, signed the king's death warrant and was imprisoned at the Restoration. The book is an account of the state of the country at the outbreak of Civil War and of the conflict in the vicinity of Notthingham, told from the Puritan point of view.

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Book Description

This work by Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), published in 1806, is an engaging account of her husband Colonel John Hutchinson's life and political commitments during the English Civil War. It is a significant social and historical document of that period, and reveals the author as a highly educated woman.

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