Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies

by Seth Curtis Beach

Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789-1867.
Mary Lovell Ware, 1798-1849.
Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880.
Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1810-1850.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896.
Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888

Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction

105 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 14, 2008

Reviews

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Downloaded from Project Gutenberg to read the chapter on Louisa May Alcott, a good and brief biography of that wonderful author. A great quote by Alcott: "I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them."

[Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I looked this up on Project Gutenberg for the section on Dorothea Dix. The writing style is a bit long-winded in places, but it was an interesting synopsis of her life. As it doesn't include citations for many of the author's claims, I'm unsure how much is supposition and how much is accurate, but it was interesting nonetheless.

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

More than just "brief biographies"

The biographies are fairly extensive and focus on the life and what made these Puritan women special. There is no source siting as this book, now in public domain and free to download on Amazon, was published years ago.

I had hoped to find a related ancestor within these pages but this far have not. Note:the book is not indexed.

[Lily P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

A free book for the Kindle. The title is misleading. I was thinking it was about women at least 100 years earlier. It's primarily women of the 1800's--most are authors, all seem to have a Unitarian church connection at some point.

The best ones are the last 2 chapters. Harriett Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Allcott.

Written in 1905--the biographies feel like moral lessons for young women of ambition and talent. If you're going to succeed in life, you'll likely be a spinster.

Frankly--depressing.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was made up of a collection of short biographies – some of the people I had heard of and others which I had not, and I found it quite interesting to learn about the lives of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe and I have now hunted out some of their other works of fiction which I have not read. The biographies of those people I had not heard of were a little on the boring side and I did find myself skim reading sections as they good be quite long winded in places. Overall a good introduction to the lives of the women mentioned but not nearly enough detail.