Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards

Name: Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards
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ISBN: 9780814723722

ISBN-10: 0814723721

ISBN-13: 9780814723722

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ava Chamberlain, Ava Chamberlain

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Who was Elizabeth Tuttle? In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a Puritan hero. Elizabeth Tuttle was Edwards’s “crazy grandmother,”the one whose madness and adultery drove his despairing grandfather to divorce. In this compelling and meticulously researched work of micro-history, Ava Chamberlain unearths a fuller history of Elizabeth Tuttle. It is a violent and tragic story in which anxious patriarchs struggle to govern their households, unruly women disobey their…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 251
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ava Chamberlain is Associate Professor of Religion at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She is the editor of The “Miscellanies,” Nos. 501-832 , vol. 18 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards.



Acknowledgments


Note on Sources


Introduction


Prologue



Hardy Puritan Pioneers



Three Struggling Patriarchs



A Brutal Murder



A Criminal Lunatic



A Messy Divorce



The Inheritance



Blood Will Tell


Conclusion


Notes


Index


About the Author