Passionate Spinster

About the Book

Passionate Spinster: The Diary of Patty Rogers, 1785 is a startling glimpse into a year in the life of a real young woman who lived in a small New Hampshire town during the Revolution. Patty Rogers was tormented by her unrequited love for the first principal of the Phillips Exeter Academy. As an upper class woman, her daily life and romantic perspective reveal many more parallels with the life and tales of Jane Austen than with the life of her New England contemporary, midwife Martha Ballard of Maine. Dr. Easton has included a summary of Rogers family history drawn from the diary of father Daniel Rogers, a Harvard graduate turned notorious evangelist, and a summary of town history and spirit of the times. All references in the diary have been meticulously researched.

About the Author

As a former director of the Exeter NH Historical Society, Marilyn Easton views the town as an insider. She sees history on every corner and in this book has transferred her visions into a fictional story so real that those who read it will ever after walk through all small New England towns with an enhanced understanding of pre-Civil War conditions in the North. Dr. Easton has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and teaches English and Humanities at New Hampshire Community Technical College. She is also the author of Passionate Spinster: The Diary of Patty Rogers: 1785.