Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Preacher's Bride / Jody Hedlund / 376 pages

     This historical Christian romance is set in Roundhead times in England. It seemed to me that the Puritans persecuted themselves almost as much as the Royals did since they had so many rules.  The book is loosely based on the life of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress.  In this story, the main character, Elizabeth, spends all her time caring for John's children and enduring assaults from a royal gentry who can abuse people without any consequence. She is a very Christian, dedicated young woman of high morals, but seems to have really poor self esteem since she is so old (teens) and unmarried.  She feels her sister is the really attractive one in the family.  Had she not felt this way, I'm not sure she would have stayed so faithfully in the background without receiving even so much as a thank you.
I really wanted her to stand up for herself, but women didn't do that in those days.
    The book seemed familiar.  Apparently I read it before about five years ago.  Still interesting.

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