Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.

At a glance The founding text of the American captivity narrative, spare, vivid, and unforgettable. In the winter of 1676 a minister's wife was seized when her frontier town was attacked… The account she wrote afterward became one of the first American bestsellers and the… What it's about Mary Rowlandson recounts her capture during King Philip's War, when her…

Mary Rowlandson recounts her capture during King Philip's War, when her Massachusetts settlement of Lancaster was attacked and she, wounded and carrying her dying child, was taken captive along with others.