Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson
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 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 22, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 12:04, 4 March 2013‎ (UTC)



Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) was a Puritan woman, spiritual adviser, and participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Born in England, she was the daughter of Francis Marbury, an Anglican minister and school teacher. As an adult, she became attracted to the preaching of the dynamic minister John Cotton, and followed him to New England after he was forced to emigrate in 1633. There she shared her religious understandings with women she helped as a midwife, and held meetings at her home to review recent sermons and criticise ministers who did not adhere to Cotton's "covenant of grace" theology. Her religious convictions and outspoken demeanour riled many magistrates and Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment. She was tried, convicted and banished from the colony in 1637. After moving to what is now The Bronx, then controlled by the Dutch, she was killed in an attack by native Siwanoy in 1643. She has been called the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history.

Promoted in November 2012, this article has at least three points: two from the requested date being the 375th anniversary of the excommunication of Hutchinson from the Boston church, and a point for this being my first main page request. I really don't know what would be considered a similar article; there was one on another religious figure a few months ago.Sarnold17 (talk) 23:26, 6 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Support - interesting.....which is why we should have it I guess.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, an influential women, spiritual adviser, banned (seems to go together easily) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - a good anniversary to run this nice article. Truthkeeper (talk) 22:50, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. - Per Gerda. GabeMc  (talk&#124;*contribs)  23:15, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support High profile article, with about 1,000 page views per diem. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. A good article about an interesting person. The anniversary seems a good time to run this. RomanSpa (talk) 15:25, 20 February 2013 (UTC)