Title: Hope Leslie
First published: October 1, 2006
Description: Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history.

At the center of the novel are two friends. Hope Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society, fights for justice for the Indians and asserts the independence of women. Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief, braves her father's wrath to save a white man and risks her freedom to reunite Hope with her long-lost sister, captured as a child by the Pequots and now married to Magawisca's brother.

Amply plotted, with unforgettable characters, Hope Leslie is a rich, compelling, deeply satisfying novel.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Massachusetts, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, History, Women, Indians of North America, Fiction, historical, Indians of north america--massachusetts--fiction, Ps2798 .h63 1987, 813/.2, Fiction, romance, historical, Friendship, fiction, New england, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775