Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson, listed by Open Library as Mary White Rowlandson, was a colonial American woman born around 1635 who died on 5 January 1711. She was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for eleven weeks before being ransomed, and the account of that captivity is the work for which she is remembered as an author. Open Library gives her best-known title as Captivity and Restoration and files her books under subjects such as Indian captivities, Massachusetts, and King Philip's War, 1675 to 1676. Her narrative of captivity and return is one of the best-known first-person accounts from colonial New England, and the catalogue holds twenty-nine works under her name.