Paratextual Materials that Introduce Katherine Garret (1738)
Second, we will observe the paratextual materials that introduce Katherine Garret, and Garret is the second literary contributor attending the collaborative space. Garret was a Pequot woman who sprung to fame after hiding her pregnancy and was tried for murdering her child.[1] Garret orally delivered her account and later wrote it down. Her account is a part of Reverend Eliphalet’s collection of sermons located at the Newberry Library.
[1] Jodi Schorb, “Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative,” in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, (2008), 148.