The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats by Mrs. Mary A. Denison
May 2019
The very best historical fiction is that which takes us into a time and place about which we are not quite so familiar as we would like, and then educates us even while entertaining us. The events that form the historical edifice of this novel are real—historians formally call them the “1689 Boston revolt.” Sir Edmund Andros, a central character of the novel, really was the Governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until 1689 when, as described herein, the colonists of Boston unceremoniously threw the nasty little vainglorious tyrant into jail. And he’s not the only central character who actually existed in real life—even the frigate Rose was actually in Boston’s harbor at the time.
The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats: or, The Dawn of the Revolution, transports the reader back in time to a period when Bostonians still considered themselves patriotic British citizens, but were already chafing at the arrogance, unfairness, and slim benefits that came with British control.
The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats: or, The Dawn of the Revolution, transports the reader back in time to a period when Bostonians still considered themselves patriotic British citizens, but were already chafing at the arrogance, unfairness, and slim benefits that came with British control.