The Worming of America, Or, An Answer to the Arraignment of Women

by Autumn Leaf

This gripping historical novel, as told by Autumn Leaf (aka Susan Hutchinson), transports readers to Colonial Boston where The Worming of America explores oppression in a Puritanical time as seen through the eyes of Anne Hutchinson's daughter.

Like all good Awakenings and revolutions, the Great Awakening and the American Revolution started with a good conversation. But when and with whom did that good conversation start? New England Transcendentalism started somewhere, but where and how? The seed of Civil Disobedience was planted by someone in Massachusetts, but by who and why?

In the polemic spirit of Jane Anger's The Protection for Women we publish The Worming of America as a rebuttal to Joseph Swetnam's novel published in 1615 titled, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant Women: or the Vanity of Them, Choose You Whether: With a Commendation of Wise, Virtuous and Honest Women: Pleasant For Married Men, Profitable For Young Men, and Hurtful to None.

Our author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, her joy, her pain, and her drawings with you the reader as she discusses her own and her classmates "good-work" before they go to the execution of Mary Dyer. Our American journey will be filled with ups and downs / twists and turns - where our own ideas of civilization, religion, sin, debt, and humanity are questioned.

The sun will shine tomorrow even as you read or look into this dark comedy, and for better or worse the truth will be felt and laid bare in the American sunlight. Not because we live within our Fathers' Age of Reason, no... quite the opposite. The Worming of America will be heard in 2018 and beyond because America now lives in the age of treason.

350 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2019

About the author

"Mother's Day" is the first Free-Grace Press novel answering the misogynist pamphlet written by Joseph Swetnam in 1615 titled: “The Arraignment of Leuud, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether: With a Commendation of Wise, Vertuous and Honest Women: Pleasant for Married Men, Profitable for Young Men, and Hurtfull to None.”

Author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, pain, and drawings with you, the reader, for over four hours on a spring morning. Our American journey will be filled with ups and downs / twists and turns — where our own ideas of sin, civilization, religion, debt, and humanity are questioned.

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting read

[Jackie · Rating 2 out of 5]

First of all, this was gifted. I started and stopped so many times that unfortunately I often had a hard time really getting into it, and I traveled midway through so there was a period of time where I sort of forgot where I was. This greatly impacted my enjoyment, but was no fault of the book. There were some modern words like metrosexual that also stood out and made me question my understanding of the time period, again, mostly because I put this down so often. I know for some readers this sort of detail is not an issue. This book brought up interesting themes regarding patriarchy, spirituality, bigotry, and American life of that period that really got me thinking and the audiobook is well produced with wonderful performances!

[Deedra · Rating 2 out of 5]

audible:I tried,I just could not understand this one.I tried several times.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review