puritan

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Ms. Zambello’s production, adapted from the one at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016, has Puritan costumes, gray clapboard walls, and simple furnishings that depict dwellings, a courtroom and a jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It was branded as heretical by Puritan authorities.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

But I felt it was most important to highlight the range of Puritan credos she discusses, which best convey the full power of her argument.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

Puritan leaders were horrified when some members of a rival English settlement began living with the Massachusett Indians.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann