Welcome to the 14th episode of Speaking to the Dead. Where Doug Rooney and Will Stafford read historic texts and put them in conversation with the modern-day. The only rule: the author must be dead!

In this episode we consider the memoir of Mary Rowlandson and her experience after being taken captive by the Algonquin. We consider how her story is coloured by the Puritan world view, why captivity narratives were so successful, and what insights the book can give us into the unwritten history of the period.