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You will enjoy this if you like historical fiction with humor and warmth, or if you are curious about the Pilgrims as living people.
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Picture a Monday morning in November 1620. Twenty-two women prepare to go ashore with tubs and kettles, while the men object. The women are firm. It is washing day, and no wilderness will change that.
Standish of Standish is a historical novel by Jane G. Austin, first published in 1889. She strings a romance along the facts of Plymouth. Her hero is Myles Standish, a soldier who sails with the Pilgrims without sharing their church. You get the first years in lively scenes: snow, plague, a treaty, a feast, and a courtship by proxy.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A washing day on a cold beachFree
- 2Standish leads the search for a home
- 3Arrows, a storm, and a chosen harbor
- 4Grief and sickness thin the company
- 5Even a rough captain can be moved
- 6A treaty begins with one word of welcome
- 7Self-government grows out of loss
- 8A courtship by proxy goes wrong
- 9Thanksgiving, a love potion, and a hard lesson
- 10A plot, a famine, and a prayer answered
Point clé 1 sur 10
A washing day on a cold beach
The story opens on Monday, November 23, 1620, with the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod. Twenty-two women want to go ashore and wash clothes that have waited weeks for soap. The men object that the pinnace must be unloaded first. The women answer that Monday is Monday.
Captain Jones growls that no boat can be spared. Governor Carver and William Bradford overrule him with quiet courtesy. On shore the boys build fires beside a pool of fresh water, and the women scrub in tubs that John Alden, a cooper, has mended. Austin plays it for comedy, and it shows how the book will work: great history seen through small household quarrels.
Here, too, Myles Standish first appears, short, broad, stern in his gaze and hiding a kindness. A colony is built from ordinary households long before it is built from laws.
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- LengthAbout 110,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 40 min
Questions about Standish de Standish
What is Standish of Standish about?
It follows the Pilgrims of Plymouth from the first washing day on the beach through plague, treaties, famine, and rescue. Its hero is Myles Standish, the soldier who defends them, while a love story grows around Priscilla and John Alden.
Who is Myles Standish in the book?
He is the military leader of the colony, a short, red-bearded English officer who served in Flanders. He does not belong to the Separatist church, carries a Damascus sword named Gideon, and nurses the sick as readily as he drills the militia.
Is Standish of Standish a true story?
Austin built it on real people and events, including the voyage of the Mayflower, the plague winter, the treaty with Massasoit, and the first Thanksgiving. Its conversations and romances are her own invention. It was published in 1889.
What does Speak for yourself, John mean?
Priscilla refuses Standish when John Alden, sent to court her for the captain, praises his courage, ancestry, and kindness. She is asking Alden to say what he feels. The phrase became one of the best-known lines about the Pilgrims.
Is Standish of Standish easy to read?
Austin writes in a lively, humorous voice with short scenes, plenty of conversation, and clear, vivid characters. Each chapter has its own event, from a launching to a feast, so you can follow the story step by step.
Cite this edition
Austin, Jane G. Standish of Standish. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/standish-of-standish.
Austin, J. G. (2026). Standish of Standish. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/standish-of-standish (Original work published 1889)
Austin, Jane G. Standish of Standish. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/standish-of-standish.
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