American jezebel by eve laplante7/3/2023 The state accepted it, but the Legislature waited two years before acknowledging the statue, indefinitely postponing its dedication. Yet the Boston Public Library refused the gift. Her cloak enfolds her little girl Susan, the next to youngest of her 15 children. She stands erect, her eyes raised to heaven. This Hutchinson, sculpted by Cyrus Dallin, is feminine piety personified. Looking at the statue now, it's not clear why. Commissioned in 1920 by several women's groups emboldened by the constitutional amendment allowing female suffrage, the statue caused controversy from the start. THE BRONZE statue of the colonial heretic Anne Hutchinson in front of the Massachusetts State House will be dedicated Friday, more than 80 years after it was installed.
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