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Book Review


Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell. By Elaine Forman Crane. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xvi, 236 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8014-4002-5.)
The violent deaths of Rebecca Cornell and her son, Thomas, undoubtedly stunned the residents of seventeenth-century Portsmouth, Rhode Island, but subsequent accounts of the colony have virtually ignored the Cornells. In Killed Strangely, Elaine Forman Crane rescues their disturbing fates from oblivion. The result is a richly complex, rewarding study of colonial Anglo-American family dynamics, community conflict, and legal culture. Crane skillfully considers multiple interpretations of these untimely deaths and, in the process, uses them to illuminate larger religious, political, and, especially, gender and generational struggles. . . .
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