Many topics can be found when one searches a topic so broad as “Puritan”. One of the most interesting, in the view of the author of this paper, would be the public opinion of the females of the day. Carol F. Karlson wrote a book titled The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. In this book she states the popular opinion of women during the time period. Johnathon Edwards had an opinion on the same topic, as is found in Zachary Hutchins’ article “Edwards and Eve: finding feminist strains in the great awakening's patriarch”, but his was very different by the end of his days. In spite of everything, the author of this paper does agree with Edwards’ view of women during the Puritan times. They were not in line
