At 50, the author lost her job in a social service agency. Rather than rejoining the rat race on another wheel, she decided to take a year "off," to examine her principles, her spiritual beliefs. Was the universe really abundant? Did it really want to give her what she needed? Mornings, she tend...
Mary Heron Dyer
Paperback
280
Dandelion Seed Pr
0966644875
9780966644876
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In 1815, Mary Marshall Dyer renounced her Shaker beliefs and departed from the religious community in Enfield, New Hampshire, that she had called her home, leaving behind her husband and five children. Angry and alone, Dyer embarked on a fifty year public campaign against the Shakers in an effort to...
Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
Paperback
256
Palgrave Macmillan
1403966125
9781403966124
9
A fascinating blend of little known history and compelling fiction. Convicted by the Puritans in 1660 for being a Quaker, Mary Dyer courageously faced the gallows on the Boston Commons. Often misunderstood by her husband and six children, she turned her back on those who loved her for the higher pri...
Ann Bell
Paperback
390
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1492803642
9781492803645
8
Mary Dyer was a devout Quaker that had the misfortune to live in the early days of the New England colonies in North America. The Puritans in Massachusetts were attempting to create their vision of a religious state. In the words of President Oakes of Harvard University, "... a little model of the g...
Horatio Rogers
Kindle Edition
122
6
In the second of two volumes, Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This, the Mary and William Dyer return to war-torn England and lay a foundation for liberty that resonates in the 21st century. Why did beautiful, wealthy Mary Dyer deliberately give up her six children, husband, and privileged lifestyle to...
Christy K Robinson
Paperback
330
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1496026136
9781496026132
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"Mary Dyer did hang as a flag..." Mary Dyer was the first woman executed in America for her religious beliefs, but her death started a revolution no one could stop. Mary Dyer, Friend of Freedom is the first children's book about this largely forgotten civil rights leader. It tells the true story o...
John Briggs
Paperback
110
Atombank Books
0990516008
9780990516002
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Mary Barrett Dyer, 1611-1660, was comely, dignified, admired for her intellect, and known in the court of King Charles. But how did she become infamous in England and America as a heretic who gave birth to a monster? Was she responsible for curses falling on colonial New England in the form of great...
Christy K Robinson
Paperback
390
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1492848034
9781492848035
2
This is the story of Mary Dyer whose indomitable efforts to seek and find freedom to worship lead eventually to her death. Her quest began when she and her husband sailed from old to new England in 1635. Landing in Boston, they were soon disillusioned by the intolerant practices and beliefs of the P...
Ruth Talbot Plimpton
Hardcover
247
Branden Pub Co
0828319642
9780828319645
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Mary M. Dyer
0404084613
Mary Lee Dyer
0809282062
Mary Lee Dyer
0809282070
Mary Dyer, born Marie Barrett (c. 1611 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts...
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