Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts

Description:

Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. At the center of the novel are two friends. Hope Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society, fights for justice for the Indians and asserts the independence of women. Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief, braves her father's wrath to save a white man and risks her freedom to reunite Hope with her long-lost sister, captured as a child by the Pequots and now married to Magawisca's brother. Amply plotted, with unforgettable characters, Hope Leslie is a rich, compelling, deeply satisfying novel.

subjects: Fiction, historical, general,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Indians of north america, fiction,  Fiction,  History,  Women,  Indians of North America,  Fiction, historical,  Indians of north america--massachusetts--fiction,  Ps2798 .h63 1987,  813/.2,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Friendship, fiction,  New england, fiction

Places: Massachusetts

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775