Earle, Alice Morse. Home Life in Colonial Days. 1898.
Earle, Alice Morse. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days. 1900.
Fiske, John. New France and New England, chap. v.
Masson, David. Life of John Milton. 1859–1880. 6 vols. (Valuable for the English backgrounds of Puritanism.)
Richardson, C. F. American Literature, chap. iv.
Tyler, M. C. A History of American Literature. Colonial Period. Vol. I, chaps. xii, xiii.
Walker, W. Ten New England Leaders. 1901.
Wendell, Barrett. Literary History of America, Bk. I, chap. V. 1901.
Individual Authors
Increase Mather. An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences. 1684.
Available Edition
With introductory preface by George Offor. London, 1890.
Collections
Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 199–216.
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, p. 59.
Stedman and Hutchinson. A Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 75–106.
Cotton Mather. The Wonders of the Invisible World. 1693. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620–1698. 1702.
Available Editions
Magnalia. With notes, translations, and life. 1853. The Wonders, etc. Reprints, Cambridge, 1861, 1862.
Biography and Criticism
Marvin, Rev. A. P. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. 1892.
Parrington, V. L. Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. I, Bk. I, in chap iii.
Sprague, W. B. Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. I, pp. 189–195. 1857.
Tyler, M. C. History of American Literature. Colonial Period. Vol. I, chaps. xii, xiii.
Collections
Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 217–237.
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 59–66.
Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 114–166.
Samuel Sewall. Diary from 1673 to 1729. The only edition is Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ser. 5, Vols. VI–VIII.
Collections
Cairns, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 238–251.
Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 188–200.
History and Criticism
Chamberlain, N. H. (See General References.)
Tyler, M. C. (See General References.)
Sarah Kemble Knight. Journals of Madame Knight. From the original manuscripts written in 1704. T. Dwight, editor. 1825.
Available Editions
A Reprint, Albany, 1865.
A Reprint, Norwich, Conn., 1901.
Collection
Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 248–264.
History and Criticism
Tyler, M. C. (See General References.)
Literary Treatment of the Period
Drama
Barker, J. N. Superstition, a Tragedy (1824), in Representative American Plays (edited by A. H. Quinn). 1917.
Longfellow, H. W. The New England Tragedies.
Wilkins, Mary E. Giles Corey, Yeoman.
Essays
Lowell, J. R. Witchcraft. Works, Vol. V.