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The Pilgrim Women have been written about so little that it is indeeda pleasure to welcome a book bearing the title, “The Women of theMayflower and Plymouth Colony.” History has dwelt long and minutelyupon the Pilgrim Fathers and their great adventure, but has passedover the women with a generalization and occasionally a tribute. Eventheir contemporaries have had but little to say about them. The authorof this little book is to be highly commended therefore for this muchneeded addition to our meagre store of literature about the mothers ofthis Nation.

There is much need to-day to perpetuate their spirit, to practisetheir faith, to maintain their ideals. They loved liberty and enduredhardship, sacrifice and suffering for its sake. They built the homesof the Nation on the foundation of English ideals of home and familylife which we cherish to-day as ours. They served their homes and thecommunity life of the colony with loyal and unswerving devotion. Theybrought up their families in those rugged virtues and a living faith inGod,[Pg 4] without which nations perish. They have a message for us to-day,calling us back, not to their austerities but to their righteousnessand spirituality. Such books as this help to spread that messagethroughout the Nation.

(Signed) Anne Rogers Minor,
President General,
National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

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