Mary Rowlandson Day

Presentations on Mary Rowlandson’s
“The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity
and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”

Each year the Humanities Department hosts an Author Day to celebrate the work
of an important writer and to look at that writer’s work from an interdisciplinary
perspective. This year, we focus on New England writer Mary Rowlandson. Her
1682 account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War
(1675-1676) was not only the first published narrative by a woman writer in the
British colonies but also one of the first "best-sellers" in America. This event will
include presentations by students from English and History classes and will comment
on the literary and historical value of Rowlandson's text.

Thomas Burnham, a student from Walter Sergeant’s American History class readying his
powerpoint presentation as other students arrive.

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A group of students from American Texts and Contexts get ready for their
Mary Rowlandson Day presentation.

From the left, Mackenzie Jones, Sarah Groves, Jena Harvey, and Callie Lee.

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Another group of American Texts and Contexts students are relaxed and
ready for their Mary Rowlandson Day presentation.

From the left, Camille Hutchinson, Adam Chabot, Ross Martikke.