Mary Rowlandson
American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War · Writers · Lived 1635 to 1711 · aged 76
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Something wrong?Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott, was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.
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Site of Rowlandson's capture (Lancaster, Massachusetts)
Lancaster raid site on Main Street in Lancaster
Original caption "Mary Rowlandson Captured by the Indians" (Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909)
London edition (1682) title page of Rowlandson's narrative
Historical marker in Princeton, Massachusetts, commemorating Rowlandson's release
"Map of Mrs. Rowlandson's Removes"Writers born in the 1630s 6
About this person
Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott, was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published. This text is considered a formative American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and garnered readership both in the New England colonies and in England, leading some to consider it the first American "bestseller".
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