Rarely does a biographer attempt to trace the arc of a family whose arrival on these shores predated the country’s founding. The Severances is an unusual reportorial accomplishment. The book documents the nearly four-hundred-year history on North American soil of a remarkable Anglo-Saxon family whose patriarch and matriarch settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1635. This epic story has been carefully pieced together, detail by detail, from the historic record by journalist Diana Tittle, the 1997 winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

Hardcover
Publisher: Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
ISBN: 978-0-911704-61-7
Pages: 400
Includes more than 85 duotone photographs, three family trees, extensive source notes and an index
U.S. retail price: $37.50

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