![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently, Mary Rowlandson gave a draft of her recollections to Increase Mather, who edited it extensively and added puritanical scriptures and life lessons. Scholars consider this account the prototype of the many such “captivity narratives” that followed, first-hand reminiscences of men and women (mostly women) abducted by “savages” in America, then later returned to “civilization.” That particular book, however, seems to have been a somewhat imaginative reconstruction of what really happened. Mary Rowlandson, in 1682, published a narrative longwindedly titled The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 published narrative of her abduction by “savages.” Flight of The Sparrow, Amy Belding Brown’s fresh and non-puritanical retelling of Mrs. ![]()
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