Item #009716 Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson written by his Widow Lucy. Lucy Hutchinson.
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson written by his Widow Lucy

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson written by his Widow Lucy

London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927. Hardcover. xl, 393 p.; 18 cm. Maroon leatherette with gilt spine title, and gilt spine and front cover decoration (style 1). Top page edges gilt. Everyman's Library illustrated endpapers. No date of publication; former owner's name on third (blank) page, dated 1927. First published in 1806, this record of Colonel John Hutchinson (1615-1664) by his widow, Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), was intended to justify his action in 1649, as one of 59 commissioners on the high court, in signing the death warrant of Charles I. John Hutchinson went on to serve on the Council of State, before becoming disillusioned with Cromwell; he was later arrested and died in prison. Lucy Hutchinson turned her journal of that period into a memoir that presented her husband as a gentleman who strongly supported the Puritan cause. An important work that shows the author as a highly educated woman who wrote and translated Latin at a time when most women were illiterate. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; loss at ends of spine; solid. Very Good -. Item #009716

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