Today the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley would face a #metoo style reckoning for his treatment of his first wife, Harriet.

In The Hummingbird and the Sea, I write briefly about a woman called Anne Hutchinson. When she and her family come under attack from the wicked Reverend Dent, Leah Hallett mentions her parents had once been supporters of Hutchinson. It struck me that readers might want to know a more about this highly controversial woman.