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century was so that they could freely express their Puritan beliefs. The seeds of this austere religion took root in the New England cultural landscape, as evidenced by the
writings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Mary Rowlandson (1635-1678), of whom very little is known beyond her narrative on her nearly two-month captivity during a Wampanoag massacre that
took place during King Philips War of 1676, may very well be the first female writer in America. The wife of Puritan minister Joseph Rowlandson, and the mother of
three, Mary Rowlandsons writing style "reflects conventional Puritan ideals and beliefs about good vs. evil and the proper role of women" (Woodard 115). Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was also very
much a product of his Puritan upbringing, a preacher who was also the son of a minister. In one of the most famous published sermons of all time, "Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards immortalized the Puritan faith once and for all, complete with plenty of fire and brimstone. Rowlandsons narrative reads almost like a first-person
account of a real life frontier adventure, but is in essence "a Puritan text steeped in Biblical allusions and interpretations" (Woodard 115). Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes,
which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive, but is also laden with Puritan symbolism. James Craig Holte observed in his book, The Conversion
Experience in America, "In describing the twenty removes that make up the rest of her narrative, Rowlandson is able to draw on scripture for both support and parallels of her
own experience Puritan theology had given her a way of looking at her experience as prefigured by Old and New Testament narratives. The Puritans used this form of identification,
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