Martha Bacon

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Martha Bacon taught English at the University of Rhode Island, and was the author of the novels, A Masque of Exile and Lament for the Chieftains.

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Miss Beecher In Hell, December 1962 | Vol. 14, No. 1
Her brilliant fiancé had drowned, unconverted: Was not his soul forever doomed? To rescue it (and her own sanity) a girl of only 22 had to refute the harsh theology of Puritanism Read >>
The Parson And The Bluestocking, December 1961 | Vol. 13, No. 1
The spinster thought she’d been proposed to; the young minister thought not. Their courtship and quarrel rocked devout New Haven Read >>

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