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The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle:

Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards (Google eBook)
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NYU Press, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 257 pages
In this compelling and meticulously researched work of micro-history, Ava Chamberlain unearths a fuller history of Elizabeth Tuttle. It is a violent and tragic story in which anxious patriarchs struggle to govern their households, unruly women disobey their husbands, mental illness tears families apart, and loved ones die sudden deaths.
  

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Review: The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards

User Review  - Margo Brooks - Goodreads

This was quite an interesting look at an historical figure about which little is known. Elizabeth Tuttle, a 17th century Puritan Goodwife has alternately been written out of the story of her famous ... Read full review

Review: The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards

User Review  - Deedee - Goodreads

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Contents

Introduction
1
Prologue
11
1 Hardy Puritan Pioneers
13
2 Three Struggling Patriarchs
35
3 A Brutal Murder
61
4 A Criminal Lunatic
85
5 A Messy Divorce
109
6 The Inheritance
139
7 Blood Will Tell
159
Conclusion
191
Notes
201
Index
247
About the Author
258
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About the author (2012)

Ava Chamberlain is Associate Professor of Religion at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She is the editor of The "Miscellanies," Nos. 501-832, vol. 18 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards.

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