Author:Cotton Mather

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Cotton Mather (1663–1728)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather. He is often remembered for his connection to the Salem witch trials.

Cotton Mather

Works

• Pillars of Salt
• The Trial of Martha Carrier
• The Wonders of The Invisible World (1693}

Works about Mather

• Frederic Gregory Mather, “Mather, Richard,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Mather, Cotton” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Mather, Cotton” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Mather, Cotton” by William Lee Corbin in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.