| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.3

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Judith S. Graham. Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 283. $40.00.

Judith S. Graham, in an exhaustive analysis of the papers of Samuel Sewall, judge, merchant, and councillor in colonial New England, sets out to squash the myth of the unloved, harshly disciplined historical child. European historiography on the history of childhood, she claims, has affected the interpretation of Puritan family life. Scholars have been too quick to portray the Puritan family as being joyless and repressive, with parents intent on breaking the wills of their children. The family experiences of Samuel, his wife Hannah, and their fourteen children, six of whom survived to adulthood, supply a detailed case study that refutes this interpretation. This book covers the Sewall children from their birth to the lives of their own children, focusing, because of the source material, on their relationship with their father. . . .

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