She finds the house decrepit and the people in the neighborhood unwelcoming. Hetta was born with a deformed tongue, and Anne blames herself, because she took herbs to conceive when her doctors said she could not.Įlsie’s written account begins when she arrives at The Bridge to live there after her husband’s unexpected death. Josiah decides, however, that their daughter Hetta will not participate in the festivities. In 1635, Josiah and Anne Bainbridge excitedly begin preparing for the arrival at their home, The Bridge, of King Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria. Her doctor suggests that writing her version may save her from being executed. She cannot speak and has not been able to tell what happened to her. In the mid-1800’s, a badly burned Elsie Bainbridge is confined to an asylum.
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