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Madam Winthrop is the wife of Governor Winthrop. She is a model Puritan wife, obedient to her husband, and she tries to teach her niece, Esther, and her ward, Hope, to develop the same submissive demeanor, with mixed success. But she also enjoys the authority of her role as Governor’s wife, and her dignified bearing commands respect from others.
Madam Winthrop Quotes in Hope Leslie
The Hope Leslie quotes below are all either spoken by Madam Winthrop or refer to Madam Winthrop. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1, Chapter 11
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[Madam Winthrop] was admirably qualified for the station she occupied. She recognised, and continually taught to matron and maiden, the duty of unqualified obedience from the wife to the husband, her appointed lord and master; a duty that it was left to modern heresy to dispute; and which our pious fathers, or even mothers, were so far from questioning, that the only divine right to govern, which they acknowledged, was that vested in the husband over the wife.
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Madam Winthrop Quotes in Hope Leslie
The Hope Leslie quotes below are all either spoken by Madam Winthrop or refer to Madam Winthrop. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Volume 1, Chapter 11
Quotes
[Madam Winthrop] was admirably qualified for the station she occupied. She recognised, and continually taught to matron and maiden, the duty of unqualified obedience from the wife to the husband, her appointed lord and master; a duty that it was left to modern heresy to dispute; and which our pious fathers, or even mothers, were so far from questioning, that the only divine right to govern, which they acknowledged, was that vested in the husband over the wife.
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