The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation
The story of Dorking’s six Mayflower ‘pilgrims’ who traveled to the New World in 1620. The book examines the town and surrounding area in the years prior to 1620 and the lives there that the group left behind. It traces the fates in the new colony of shoemaker William Mullins, his wife Alice, and children Priscilla and Joseph, their servant Robert Carter, and weaver Peter Browne. The young Priscilla Mullins, who married the ship’s cooper John Alden, went on to bring up a large family in the colony and became the inspiration for Longfellow’s poem ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’. She is revered in the United States today, where her home is a museum.
by Kathy Atherton and Susannah Horne
88pp with full colour illustrations
The story of Dorking’s six Mayflower ‘pilgrims’ who traveled to the New World in 1620. The book examines the town and surrounding area in the years prior to 1620 and the lives there that the group left behind. It traces the fates in the new colony of shoemaker William Mullins, his wife Alice, and children Priscilla and Joseph, their servant Robert Carter, and weaver Peter Browne. The young Priscilla Mullins, who married the ship’s cooper John Alden, went on to bring up a large family in the colony and became the inspiration for Longfellow’s poem ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’. She is revered in the United States today, where her home is a museum.
by Kathy Atherton and Susannah Horne
88pp with full colour illustrations
The story of Dorking’s six Mayflower ‘pilgrims’ who traveled to the New World in 1620. The book examines the town and surrounding area in the years prior to 1620 and the lives there that the group left behind. It traces the fates in the new colony of shoemaker William Mullins, his wife Alice, and children Priscilla and Joseph, their servant Robert Carter, and weaver Peter Browne. The young Priscilla Mullins, who married the ship’s cooper John Alden, went on to bring up a large family in the colony and became the inspiration for Longfellow’s poem ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’. She is revered in the United States today, where her home is a museum.
by Kathy Atherton and Susannah Horne
88pp with full colour illustrations