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.