Religion (12-Feb-1663 — 13-Feb-1728)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Otto Beall; Richard H. Shryock. Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. 1954. 241pp.

Ralph Boas; Louise Boas. Cotton Mather: Keeper of the Puritan Conscience. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1928. 271pp.

Mitchell Robert Breitwieser. Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality. Cambridge University Press. 1984. 309pp.

John S. Erwin. The Millennialism of Cotton Mather: An Historical and Theological Analysis. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 1990. 260pp.

Christopher D. Felker. Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance. Northeastern University Press. 1993. 309pp.

Worthington Chauncy Ford (editor). Diary of Cotton Mather. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society. 1911-12.. (2 vols.) Part I, 1681-1708. Part II, 1709-1724.

Thomas James Holmes. Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works. Harvard University Press. 1940. (3 vols.) 461pp. + 449pp. + 485pp.

David Levin. Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord's Remembrance, 1663-1703. Harvard University Press. 1978. 360pp.

Babette May Levy. Cotton Mather. Twayne. 1979. 188pp.

Richard F. Lovelace. The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Christian University Press. 1979.

Abijah P. Marvin. Life and Times of Cotton Mather, D.D., F.R.S. Or, A Boston Minister of Two Centuries Ago, 1663-1728. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society. 1892. 582pp.

Samuel Mather; David Jennings. An Abridgment of the Life of the Late Reverend and Learned Dr. Cotton Mather, of Boston in New-England. Taken from the Account of Him Published by His Son, the Reverend Samuel Mather. London: J. Oswald at the Rose and Crown. 1744. Originally published 1729 in Boston.

Robert Middlekauff. The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728. New York: Oxford University Press. 1971. 440pp.

Sidney H. Rooy. The Theology of Missions in the Puritan Tradition: A Study of Representative Puritans: Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter, John Eliot, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. 1965. 346pp.

Kenneth Silverman. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. New York: Harper & Bros. 1984. 479pp.

Kenneth Silverman (editor). Selected Letters of Cotton Mather. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1971.

Winton U. Solberg. The Christian Philosopher: Cotton Mather. University of Illinois Press. 1994. 488pp.

Barrett Wendell. Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. 1891. 321pp.

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5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.756)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.987)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.698)

9. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.478)

10. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (p.264)

11. American Authors 1600-1900 (pp.514-15)

12. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.662)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.478)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.335)

15. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.453)

16. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.651)

17. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.338)

18. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.96)

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