A Delightful Companion to the Fiction Books
The Dyers
of London, Boston, & Newport is the third in the compelling trilogy
of Dyer books by author/editor Christy K Robinson. The first two are fiction.
If you are a historian, you may at first think you want only the nonfiction
book. That’s what I thought at first also. I love history and seldom read
fiction, but I took the leap on these because I had learned in recent years that
I am descended from William and Mary Dyer.
I thoroughly enjoyed the two fiction books. Based firmly on history,
they will enrich your understanding of this important time period in American
history.
With the nonfiction book, you get to know the Dyers …
and their heritage. If you have found them in your family tree you will enjoy a
veritable feast of information about your ancestors. And if you're not related
to them, you will still be fascinated by this lively, entertaining, yet
historically accurate book.
William and Mary Dyer were the Dyers of London. They
were married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in Westminster, London, on
October 27, 1633.
A well-to-do couple, they left England for the
colonies, landing in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 in the midst of the Great
Migration of Puritans fleeing religious persecution and corruption in their
homeland. They both made amazing contributions to the New World, impacting the
realms of religion and politics. They helped found Portsmouth and Newport, Rhode
Island. And Mary has a prominent statue today at the Boston Statehouse.
William was the first Commander-in-Chief-Upon-the-Seas
in the Colonies. And … well you just need to read the book. They were one of
America’s first power couples.
The lynchpin of the Dyer history is Mary’s singular
impact on the Colonies and on this nation’s freedoms … of speech and of
religion. She paid the ultimate price, dying on the gallows at the hands of a
bigoted and corrupt Puritan political hierarchy … and in her death, changed the
world of then, and of today.
Written in numerous brief topical chapters, the book
never bogs the reader down, providing instead a steady relevant variety told in
crisp, entertaining prose. I have placed the book where few have the privilege
of resting—on my regular reference shelf.
Go inside the world of William and Mary Dyer. Learn
the big things, and a lot of the interesting small things, that made up their unique
and colorful lives and times.
All three
books are available on Amazon.
